Enhancing Hebbian learning to control brain oscillatory activity

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 2409-2415

  Soekadar, Surjo R ^a,b,c   Witkowski, Matthias ^a,b,c   Birbaumer, Niels ^c,d   Cohen, Leonardo G ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d SAN CAMILLO FORLANINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain stimulation; Hebbian learning; Motor cortex; Sensorimotor rhythms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGERY; IMITATION; LEARNING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MOTOR EVOKED POTENTIAL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; TIME FACTOR; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SKILLS; MOVEMENT; PERIODICITY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84983246886     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu043     Document Type: Article

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