Oscillatory brain correlates of live joint attention: A dual-EEG study

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUNE 2012, 2012, Pages

  Lachat, Fanny ^a,b,c   Hugueville, Laurent ^a,b,c   Lemaréchal, Jean Didier ^a,b,c   Conty, Laurence ^c,d   George, Nathalie ^a,b,c  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 8   (France)

Author keywords

Alpha; Dual EEG; Joint attention; Mu; Social coordination; Time frequency analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COLOR; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT ATTENTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PARIETO-OCCIPITAL SULCUS; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

EID: 84864225573     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00156     Document Type: Article

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