Frontal-posterior theta oscillations reflect memory retrieval during sentence comprehension

Cortex

Volumn 71, Issue , 2015, Pages 205-218

  Meyer, Lars ^a   Grigutsch, Maren ^a   Schmuck, Noura ^b   Gaston, Phoebe ^c   Friederici, Angela D ^a  

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

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Sentence comprehension; Source localization; Theta oscillations; Time frequency analysis; Verbal working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR TEMPORAL CORTEX; MALE; MEMORY ASSESSMENT; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OSCILLATION; PARIETAL CORTEX; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; THETA RHYTHM; WORKING MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT; BRAIN CORTEX; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; LONG TERM MEMORY; MEMORY; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; PARIETAL LOBE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; TEMPORAL LOBE; THETA RHYTHM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84938252700     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2015.06.027     Document Type: Article

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