Medial prefrontal theta phase coupling during spatial memory retrieval

Hippocampus

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 656-665

  Kaplan, Raphael ^a,b,c   Bush, Daniel ^b,c   Bonnefond, Mathilde ^d   Bandettini, Peter A ^a   Barnes, Gareth R ^c   Doeller, Christian F ^d   Burgess, Neil ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; MEG; MPFC; MTL; Oscillations

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRECUNEUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY; TEMPORAL LOBE; THETA RHYTHM; VISUAL CORTEX; WORKING MEMORY; ASSOCIATION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CUES; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPATIAL MEMORY; THETA RHYTHM; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84900526088     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.22255     Document Type: Article

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