Adverse listening conditions and memory load drive a common alpha oscillatory network

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 36, 2012, Pages 12376-12383

  Obleser, Jonas ^a   Wöstmann, Malte ^a   Hellbernd, Nele ^a   Wilsch, Anna ^a   Maess, Burkhard ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MEMORY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPISODIC MEMORY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NERVE NET; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865728813     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4908-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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