Flexible frequency control of cortical oscillations enables computations required for working memory

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 31, 2013, Pages 12828-12833

  Dipoppa, Mario ^a,b,d   Gutkin, Boris S ^a,c  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alpha band; Beta band; Gamma band; Selective gating; Theta band

Indexed keywords

ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMAN; MEMORY; NERVE CELL; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; THETA RHYTHM; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ALPHA BAND; BETA BAND; GAMMA BAND; SELECTIVE GATING; THETA BAND;

BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; HUMANS; MEMORY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS;

EID: 84881095434     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1303270110     Document Type: Article

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