Time-frequency analysis of event-related potentials: A brief tutorial

Brain Topography

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 438-450

  Herrmann, Christoph S ^a   Rach, Stefan ^a   Vosskuhl, Johannes ^a   Strüber, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain oscillations; ERP; Gamma; Mismatch negativity; Theta; Time frequency analysis

Indexed keywords

ALPHA RHYTHM; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GAMMA RHYTHM; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THETA RHYTHM; TIME; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

BRAIN; BRAIN WAVES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 84904759941     PISSN: 08960267     EISSN: 15736792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10548-013-0327-5     Document Type: Review

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