Coordinated within-trial dynamics of low-frequency neural rhythms controls evidence accumulation

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 25, 2014, Pages 8519-8528

  Werkle Bergner, Markus ^a   Grandy, Thomas H ^a   Chicherio, Christian ^a,b   Schmiedek, Florian ^a,c   Lövdén, Martin ^a,d   Lindenberger, Ulman ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c GERMAN INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d AGING RESEARCH CENTER   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Decision making; EEG; Entropy; Neural oscillations; Single trial analyses; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COORDINATION; DECISION MAKING; DYNAMICS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION; ENTROPY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEURAL RHYTHM; OSCILLATION; OSCILLATORY POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHYTHM; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOPOGRAPHY;

DECISION MAKING; EEG; ENTROPY; NEURAL OSCILLATIONS; SINGLE-TRIAL ANALYSES; SYNCHRONIZATION;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902438271     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3801-13.2014     Document Type: Article

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