Region-specific modulations in oscillatory alpha activity serve to facilitate processing in the visual and auditory modalities

NeuroImage

Volumn 87, Issue , 2014, Pages 356-362

  Mazaheri, Ali ^a   van Schouwenburg, Martine R ^b,c,f   Dimitrijevic, Andrew ^d   Denys, Damiaan ^a,e   Cools, Roshan ^b,c   Jensen, Ole ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BETA RHYTHM; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LINGUAL GYRUS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891906295     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.10.052     Document Type: Article

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