Throwing out the rules: Anticipatory alpha-band oscillatory attention mechanisms during task-set reconfigurations

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1960-1972

  Foxe, John J ^a,b,c   Murphy, Jeremy W ^a,c   De Sanctis, Pierfilippo ^a,b,c  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Biasing; Cueing; EEG; Suppression; Task switching

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ALPHA BAND OSCILLATORY ACTIVITY; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COMPETITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VELOCITY; VISUAL STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ALPHA RHYTHM; AUDITORY CORTEX; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ANTICIPATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AUDITORY CORTEX; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84901693953     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12577     Document Type: Article

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