Donders is dead: cortical traveling waves and the limits of mental chronometry in cognitive neuroscience

Cognitive Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 365-375

  Alexander, David M ^a   Trengove, Chris ^a   van Leeuwen, Cees ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cortex; Difference method; Traveling waves

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MENTAL CHRONOMETRY; NEUROSCIENCE; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HISTORY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MENTAL FUNCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION;

BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN WAVES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MENTAL PROCESSES;

EID: 84947491945     PISSN: 16124782     EISSN: 16124790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10339-015-0662-4     Document Type: Article

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