Pre- and post-stimulus alpha activity shows differential modulation with spatial attention during the processing of pain

NeuroImage

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1965-1974

  May, Elisabeth S ^a   Butz, Markus ^a,b   Kahlbrock, Nina ^a   Hoogenboom, Nienke ^a   Brenner, Meike ^a   Schnitzler, Alfons ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gating; Inhibition; Lateralization; MEG; Oscillations; Top down

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAND; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LASER; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NOCICEPTION; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY GATING; SPATIAL ATTENTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADULT; AGED; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863503063     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.05.071     Document Type: Article

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