Frontal Midline Theta Reflects Individual Task Performance in a Working Memory Task

Brain Topography

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 127-134

  Maurer, Urs ^a   Brem, Silvia ^a   Liechti, Martina ^a   Maurizio, Stefano ^a   Michels, Lars ^b   Brandeis, Daniel ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c MEDICAL FACULTY MANNHEIM HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alpha; EEG; Frequency; Individual differences; Theta; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; THETA RHYTHM; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; THETA RHYTHM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84897121026     PISSN: 08960267     EISSN: 15736792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10548-014-0361-y     Document Type: Article

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