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Event-Related Synchronization and Desynchronization of Alpha and Beta Waves in a Cognitive Task

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Induced Rhythms in the Brain

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Together with the discovery of alpha waves in human scalp electroencephalograms (EEG) by Berger (1930), blocking was reported in response to a light stimulation. Triggered by the pioneering research of Berger, other groups focused on blocking or desynchronization of alpha and beta waves after visual afferences as well as after somatosensory stimulation or movement (Jasper and Andrews 1938; Jasper and Penfield 1949; Gastaut et al., 1952; Chatrian et al., 1959). Besides these findings of alpha or beta wave attenuation after sensory stimulation or with voluntary movement, there were also reports of an enhancement of alpha band activity as a response to visual stimulation (Morrell, 1966; Creutzfeldt et al., 1969) and tactile stimulation (Kreitman and Shaw, 1965).

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  1. Institute of Physiology, Medical University LĂĽbeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, D-2400, LĂĽbeck 1, Germany

    Erol BaĹźar

  2. Department of Neurosciences, 0201, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA

    Theodore H. Bullock

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Pfurtscheller, G., Klimesch, W. (1992). Event-Related Synchronization and Desynchronization of Alpha and Beta Waves in a Cognitive Task. In: Başar, E., Bullock, T.H. (eds) Induced Rhythms in the Brain. Brain Dynamics. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1281-0_6

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