Alpha and gamma oscillations characterize feedback and feedforward processing in monkey visual cortex

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 40, 2014, Pages 14332-14341

  Van Kerkoerle, Timo ^a   Self, Matthew W ^a   Dagnino, Bruno ^a   Gariel Mathis, Marie Alice ^a   Poort, Jasper ^a   Van Der Togt, Chris ^a   Roelfsema, Pieter R ^a,b,c  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attention; Granger causality; Neuronal; Perceptual organization; Phase coherence; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907788063     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1402773111     Document Type: Article

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