Lateralized auditory cortical alpha band activity and interregional connectivity pattern reflect anticipation of target sounds

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1604-1613

  Müller, Nadia ^a   Weisz, Nathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

frontal eye field; MEG; phase coupling; spatial attention; synchronization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; FEMALE; FRONTAL EYE FIELD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ANTICIPATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CUES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862890589     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr232     Document Type: Article

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