Brain oscillatory 4-35Hz EEG responses during an n-back task with complex visual stimuli

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 516, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 141-145

  Palomäki, Jussi ^a   Kivikangas, Markus ^a,b   Alafuzoff, Aleksander ^a   Hakala, Tero ^a   Krause, Christina M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

Author keywords

Brain oscillations; Complex visual stimuli; Electroencephalography; N Back; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860252867     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.03.076     Document Type: Article

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