Not so different after all: The same oscillatory processes support different types of attention

Brain Research

Volumn 1626, Issue , 2015, Pages 183-197

  Frey, Julia Natascha ^a   Ruhnau, Philipp ^a   Weisz, Nathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alpha; Attention; Entrainment; Phase reset; Power

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; FACILITATION; HUMAN; MODULATION; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; ALPHA RHYTHM; ANIMAL; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN CORTEX; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TIME PERCEPTION; VISION;

ALPHA RHYTHM; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BRAIN WAVES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CUES; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84948714337     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: 18726240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2015.02.017     Document Type: Review

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