Prestimulus oscillatory power and connectivity patterns predispose conscious somatosensory perception

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

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Weisz, Nathan ^a   Wühle, Anja ^b   Monittola, Gianpiero ^a   Demarchi, Gianpaolo ^a,c   Frey, Julia ^a   Popov, Tzvetan ^c   Braun, Christoph ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATORY POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; TACTILE STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ALPHA OSCILLATIONS; GRAPH THEORY; WIN2CON;

ADULT; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893352633     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1317267111     Document Type: Article

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