Gearing up for action: Attentive tracking dynamically tunes sensory and motor oscillations in the alpha and beta band

NeuroImage

Volumn 82, Issue , 2013, Pages 634-644

  Tan, Heng Ru May ^a   Leuthold, Hartmut ^b   Gross, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Action observation; Alpha and beta oscillations; Attentive tracking; Dynamic stimuli; Goal directed behavior; Magnetoencephalography (MEG); Spatial attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BETA RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETIC STIMULATION; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACTION OBSERVATION; ALPHA AND BETA OSCILLATIONS; ATTENTIVE TRACKING; DYNAMIC STIMULI; GOAL-DIRECTED BEHAVIOR; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY (MEG); SPATIAL ATTENTION;

ATTENTION; BRAIN; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881103370     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.04.120     Document Type: Article

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