Temporal dynamics of attention during encoding versus maintenance of working memory: Complementary views from event-related potentials and alpha-band oscillations

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 492-508

  Myers, Nicholas E ^a   Walther, Lena ^a   Wallis, George ^a   Stokes, Mark G ^a   Nobre, Anna C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY; BRAIN CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ANTICIPATION, GENETIC; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CUES; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922191292     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00727     Document Type: Article

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