Frontal theta is a signature of successful working memory manipulation

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 224, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 255-262

  Itthipuripat, Sirawaj ^a   Wessel, Jan R ^a   Aron, Adam R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; EEG; Manipulation; Neural oscillations; Theta oscillations; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THETA RHYTHM; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SERIAL LEARNING; THETA RHYTHM; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872310162     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-012-3305-3     Document Type: Article

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