Frontal midline theta rhythm and gamma power changes during focused attention on mental calculation: An MEG beamformer analysis

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue JUNE, 2014, Pages

  Ishii, Ryouhei ^a   Canuet, Leonides ^b   Ishihara, Tsutomu ^a   Aoki, Yasunori ^a   Ikeda, Shunichiro ^a,c   Hata, Masahiro ^a   Katsimichas, Themistoklis ^a   Gunji, Atsuko ^d   Takahashi, Hidetoshi ^e   Nakahachi, Takayuki ^e   Iwase, Masao ^a   Takeda, Masatoshi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c Osaka Prefectural Hospital Organization   (Japan)

^d YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arithmetic calculation; Beamformer; Focused attention; Frontal midline theta; Gamma band; Magnetoencephalography (MEG); Spatial filtering; Synthetic aperture magnetometry (SAM)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRONTAL MIDLINE THETA RHYTHM; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MAGNETOMETRY; MALE; MENTAL ARITHMETIC; MENTAL TASK; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; OSCILLATORY POTENTIAL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; THETA RHYTHM; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84902344944     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00406     Document Type: Article

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