Alpha-band oscillations, attention, and controlled access to stored information
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Alpha-band oscillations, attention, and controlled access to stored information
Alpha-band oscillations are the dominant oscillations in the human brain and recent evidence suggests that they have an inhibitory function. Nonetheless, there is little doubt that alpha-band oscillations also play an active role in information processing. In this article, I suggest that alpha-band oscillations have two roles (inhibition and timing) that are closely linked to two fundamental fu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Trends in Cognitive Sciences
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1364-6613
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2012.10.007