The role of gamma and alpha oscillations for blocking out distraction

Communicative and Integrative Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Bonnefond, Mathilde ^a   Jensen, Ole ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alpha; Attention; Distracter; Electroencephalography (EEG); Executive control; Gamma; Magnetoencephalography (MEG); Oscillations; Synchronization; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875088590     PISSN: 19420889     EISSN: 19420889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cib.22702     Document Type: Article

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