Oscillatory dynamics coordinating human frontal networks in support of goal maintenance

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1318-1324

  Voytek, Bradley ^a   Kayser, Andrew S ^b,c   Badre, David ^d   Fegen, David ^a   Chang, Edward F ^c,e   Crone, Nathan E ^f   Parvizi, Josef ^g   Knight, Robert T ^a   D'Esposito, Mark ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^g STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COORDINATION; DYNAMICS; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTRACRANIAL ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS; ADULT; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GAMMA RHYTHM; MALE; MOTIVATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REACTION TIME; THETA RHYTHM;

ADULT; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GAMMA RHYTHM; GOALS; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 84940459042     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.4071     Document Type: Article

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