Alpha and theta brain oscillations index dissociable processes in spoken word recognition

NeuroImage

Volumn 97, Issue , 2014, Pages 387-395

  Strauß, Antje ^a   Kotz, Sonja A ^a,b   Scharinger, Mathias ^a   Obleser, Jonas ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

EEG; Lexical decision; Slow neural oscillations; Source localization; Time frequency analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISSOCIATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OSCILLATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL FILTERING; THETA RHYTHM; TIME FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; WORD RECOGNITION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH PERCEPTION; THETA RHYTHM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901631403     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.04.005     Document Type: Article

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