Human cortical responses during one-bit short-term memory. A high-resolution EEG study on delayed choice reaction time tasks

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 161-170

  Babiloni, Claudio ^a,b   Babiloni, Fabio ^a   Carducci, Filippo ^a,b   Cappa, Stefano F ^c   Cincotti, Febo ^a   Del Percio, Claudio ^a   Miniussi, Carlo ^b   Moretti, Davide Vito ^a   Rossi, Simone ^d   Sosta, Katiuscia ^b   Rossini, Paolo Maria ^b,e  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

^c VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alpha rhythm; Cerebral cortex; Delayed choice reaction time; Electroencephalography; Event related desynchronization synchronization; Short term memory; Theta rhythm

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT;

EID: 9144254644     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(03)00286-4     Document Type: Article

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