Gamma oscillations underlie the maintenance of feature-specific information and the contents of visual working memory

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 3788-3801

  Honkanen, Roosa ^a,b   Rouhinen, Santeri ^a   Wang, Sheng H ^a   Palva, J Matias ^a   Palva, Satu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

EEG; MEG; Oscillation; Representation; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN REGION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; THETA RHYTHM; VISUAL AREA V4; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL WORKING MEMORY; BRAIN CORTEX; DECISION MAKING; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BETA RHYTHM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84948679240     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu263     Document Type: Article

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