Induced alpha rhythms track the content and quality of visual working memory representations with high temporal precision

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 7587-7599

  Anderson, David E ^a   Serences, John T ^b,c   Vogel, Edward K ^a   Awh, Edward ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Decoding; EEG; Oscillatory activity; Tuning function; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED RESPONSE; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEURONAL OSCILLATION; ORIENTING RESPONSE; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS; VISUAL WORKING MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ATTENTION; DECODING; EEG; OSCILLATORY ACTIVITY; TUNING FUNCTION; WORKING MEMORY;

ALPHA RHYTHM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901457449     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0293-14.2014     Document Type: Article

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