Individual alpha peak frequency is related to latent factors of general cognitive abilities

NeuroImage

Volumn 79, Issue , 2013, Pages 10-18

  Grandy, Thomas H ^a   Werkle Bergner, Markus ^a   Chicherio, Christian ^a,b   Lövdén, Martin ^a,c   Schmiedek, Florian ^a,d   Lindenberger, Ulman ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d GERMAN INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alpha frequency; EEG; General intelligence; Neural oscillations

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIVIDUAL ALPHA FREQUENCY; INTELLIGENCE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; AGING; ALPHA RHYTHM; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; COGNITIVE RESERVE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84877904037     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.04.059     Document Type: Article

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