Higher balance task demands are associated with an increase in individual alpha peak frequency

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue JAN2016, 2016, Pages

  Hülsdünker, Thorben ^a   Mierau, Andreas ^a   Strüder, Heiko K ^a  

^a GERMAN SPORT UNIVERSITY COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cortex; EEG; Error detection; iAPF; Posture; Sensorimotor; Stance; Theta

Indexed keywords

ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTIFACT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EYE; HUMAN; OSCILLATION; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SCALP; VESTIBULE;

EID: 84956625947     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00695     Document Type: Article

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