Successful memory encoding is associated with increased cross-frequency coupling between frontal theta and posterior gamma oscillations in human scalp-recorded EEG

NeuroImage

Volumn 66, Issue , 2013, Pages 642-647

  Friese, Uwe ^a,b   Köster, Moritz ^b   Hassler, Uwe ^b   Martens, Ulla ^b   Trujillo Barreto, Nelson ^c   Gruber, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^c CUBAN NEUROSCIENCE CENTER   (Cuba)

Author keywords

Cross frequency coupling; EEG; Gamma band; Memory encoding; Oscillations; Theta band

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY ENCODING; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; THETA RHYTHM; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WAVELET ANALYSIS; BRAIN; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SCALP; YOUNG ADULT;

BRAIN; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; SCALP; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872237823     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.11.002     Document Type: Article

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