Occipitoparietal alpha-band responses to the graded allocation of top-down spatial attention

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1307-1316

  Dombrowe, Isabel ^a   Hilgetag, Claus C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpha band; Attention; EEG

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; DEPTH PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 84907231915     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00654.2013     Document Type: Article

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