Modification of brain oscillations via rhythmic light stimulation provides evidence for entrainment but not for superposition of event-related responses

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue FEB2016, 2016, Pages

  Notbohm, Annika ^a   Kurths, Jürgen ^b   Herrmann, Christoph S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alpha; Arnold tongue; Individual alpha frequency; Intermittency; Parietal cortex; Steady state visually evoked potential (SSVEP); Superposition; Visual flicker

Indexed keywords

ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; STEADY STATE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TONGUE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84957809904     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2016.00010     Document Type: Article

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