Traveling waves and trial averaging: The nature of single-trial and averaged brain responses in large-scale cortical signals

NeuroImage

Volumn 73, Issue , 2013, Pages 95-112

  Alexander, David M ^a   Jurica, Peter ^b   Trengove, Chris ^a   Nikolaev, Andrey R ^a   Gepshtein, Sergei ^c   Zvyagintsev, Mikhail ^d   Mathiak, Klaus ^d   Schulze Bonhage, Andreas ^e   Ruescher, Johanna ^e,f   Ball, Tonio ^e,f   van Leeuwen, Cees ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^d RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cortical topography; Evoked response; Phase; Traveling waves

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FINGER; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAVELING WAVE; TRIAL AVERAGED EVOKED RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MOVEMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874379051     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.01.016     Document Type: Article

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