Alpha phase determines successful lexical decision in noise

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 3256-3262

  Strauß, Antje ^a   Henry, Molly J ^a   Scharinger, Mathias ^a   Obleser, Jonas ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bifurcation index; Decision weighting; EEG; Lexical decision; Neural oscillations; Sensory selection

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; EFFECT SIZE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THETA RHYTHM; WORD RECOGNITION; ATTENTION; BRAIN; LINGUISTICS; NOISE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ATTENTION; BRAIN; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SEMANTICS; THETA RHYTHM; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84923007646     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3357-14.2015     Document Type: Article

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