Fronto parietal theta activity supports behavioral decisions in movement-target selection

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUNE 2012, 2012, Pages

  Rawle, Christian J ^a   Chris Miall, R ^a   Praamstra, Peter ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Motor cortex; Movement preparation; Parietal cortex; Reaching; Theta oscillations

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; CONTRALATERAL DELAY ACTIVITY; DECISION MAKING; EVOKED RESPONSE; EYE MOVEMENT; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROMODULATION; PARIETAL CORTEX; RESPONSE TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; THETA RHYTHM; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84933671970     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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