Metacognitive awareness of covert somatosensory attention corresponds to contralateral alpha power

NeuroImage

Volumn 85, Issue , 2014, Pages 803-809

  Whitmarsh, Stephen ^a,b   Barendregt, Henk ^b   Schoffelen, Jan Mathijs ^a   Jensen, Ole ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alpha; Attention; Awareness; Metacognition; Neural oscillations

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AWARENESS; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; METACOGNITION; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

ALPHA; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; METACOGNITION; NEURAL OSCILLATIONS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ATTENTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84889677100     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.07.031     Document Type: Article

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