Alpha-band suppression in the visual word form area as a functional bottleneck to consciousness

NeuroImage

Volumn 78, Issue , 2013, Pages 33-45

  Levy, Jonathan ^a,b,c,d,e   Vidal, Juan R ^a,f,g   Oostenveld, Robert ^a,j   FitzPatrick, Ian ^a,h   Démonet, Jean François ^b,c,d,i   Fries, Pascal ^a,j  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^d CHU PURPAN   (France)

^e BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^f LYON NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH CENTER   (France)

^g UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^h HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

ⁱ LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^j ERNST STRÜNGMANN INSTITUTE ESI FOR NEUROSCIENCE IN COOPERATION WITH MAX PLANCK SOCIETY   (Germany)

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Author keywords

Alpha band; Consciousness; MEG; Neuronal oscillations; Reading; VWFA

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL WORD FORM AREA; WORD RECOGNITION;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; READING; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876956966     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.04.020     Document Type: Article

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