Changes in theta and beta oscillations as signatures of novel word consolidation

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1286-1297

  Bakker, Iske ^a   Takashima, Atsuko ^a   Van Hell, Janet G ^a,b   Janzen, Gabriele ^a   Mcqueen, James M ^a,c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BETA RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LEXICAL DECISION TASK; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; THETA RHYTHM; ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; LINGUISTICS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEMANTICS; THETA RHYTHM; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84930163122     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00801     Document Type: Article

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