The roles of cortical oscillations in sustained attention

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 188-195

  Clayton, Michael S ^a   Yeung, Nick ^a   Cohen Kadosh, Roi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alpha; Attention; Control; Gamma; Oscillations; Theta

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; CONTROL;

ALPHA; ATTENTION; GAMMA; OSCILLATIONS; THETA;

BIOLOGY;

ATTENTION; CORTICAL OSCILLATION; FATIGUE; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMAN; NEUROTRANSMISSION; OSCILLATION; PATIENT MONITORING; REVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE; THETA RHYTHM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN WAVES; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL;

EID: 84925622079     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2015.02.004     Document Type: Review

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