Revealing hidden states in visual working memory using electroencephalography

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue september, 2015, Pages

  Wolff, Michael J ^a,b   Ding, Jacqueline ^b   Myers, Nicholas E ^b   Stokes, Mark G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dynamic coding; EEG; Hidden state; Multivariate pattern analysis; Visual working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; ECHOLOCATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; STIMULUS; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84941080493     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2015.00123     Document Type: Article

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