Dynamic Changes in Phase-Amplitude Coupling Facilitate Spatial Attention Control in Fronto-Parietal Cortex

PLoS Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Szczepanski, Sara M ^a   Crone, Nathan E ^b   Kuperman, Rachel A ^c   Auguste, Kurtis I ^c,d   Parvizi, Josef ^e   Knight, Robert T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OAKLAND   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTOPARIETAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MENTAL TASK; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PARIETAL CORTEX; SIGNAL DETECTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD; YOUNG ADULT; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FRONTAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY; THETA RHYTHM; VISION;

ATTENTION; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTRODES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; PARIETAL LOBE; SPACE PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; THETA RHYTHM; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84905655611     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001936     Document Type: Article

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