Spectral fingerprints of large-scale cortical dynamics during ambiguous motion perception

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 4099-4111

  Helfrich, Randolph F ^a,b   Knepper, Hannah ^a   Nolte, Guido ^a   Sengelmann, Malte ^a   König, Peter ^a,c   Schneider, Till R ^a   Engel, Andreas K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

ambiguous perception; amplitude envelope correlations; bistable perception; EEG source analysis; gamma oscillations; intrinsic coupling modes; large scale neuronal networks; motion quartett; phase synchronization; stroboscopic alternative motion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FINGER DERMATOGLYPHICS; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84990227254     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.23298     Document Type: Article

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