EEG phase patterns reflect the selectivity of neural firing

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 389-398

  Ng, Benedict Shien Wei ^a,b   Logothetis, Nikos K ^a,b,c   Kayser, Christoph ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

auditory cortex; entrainment; natural sounds; oscillations; phase coding; stimulus discrimination; theta band

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THETA RHYTHM;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MACACA; MALE; NEURONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84872331920     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs031     Document Type: Article

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