Alpha power increases in right parietal cortex reflects focused internal attention

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 393-400

  Benedek, Mathias ^a   Schickel, Rainer J ^a   Jauk, Emanuel ^a   Fink, Andreas ^a   Neubauer, Aljoscha C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Alpha; Attention; Divergent thinking; EEG; Inhibition; Memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; PARIETAL CORTEX; SENSORY STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING;

ALPHA; ATTENTION; DIVERGENT THINKING; EEG; INHIBITION; MEMORY;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896894308     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.02.010     Document Type: Article

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