Prefrontally driven downregulation of neural synchrony mediates goal-directed forgetting

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 42, 2012, Pages 14742-14751

  Hanslmayr, Simon ^a,b   Volberg, Gregor ^a   Wimber, Maria ^c   Oehler, Nora ^b   Staudigl, Tobias ^b   Hartmann, Thomas ^b   Raabe, Markus ^a   Greenlee, Mark W ^a   Bäuml, Karl Heinz T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; BOLD SIGNAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DOWN REGULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DOWN-REGULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867619364     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1777-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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