Frontal midline theta connectivity is related to efficiency of WM maintenance and is affected by aging

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 114, Issue , 2014, Pages 58-69

  Tóth, Brigitta ^a,c   Kardos, Zsófia ^a,d   File, Bálint ^e   Boha, Roland ^a   Stam, Cornelis Jan ^b   Molnár, Márk ^a,c  

^a Research Centre for Natural Sciences Hungarian Academy of Sciences   (Hungary)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^d BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^e PÁZMÁNY PÉTER CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Aging; Frontal midline theta; Functional connectivity; Phase lag index; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONNECTOME; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL MIDLINE CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; SENSORY CORTEX; THETA RHYTHM; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY; ADOLESCENT; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FRONTAL LOBE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; THETA RHYTHM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84900824229     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: 10959564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2014.04.009     Document Type: Article

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