INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY (Cited in Psychological Abstracts (PsycINFO); Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (Neuroscience Abstracts and Animal Behaviour Abstracts); Excerpta Medica (EMBASE); Index Medicus (Medline); Current Contents/Life Sciences; Social and Behavioural Sciences; Reference Update; Current Awareness in Biological Sciences (CABS)) VOL. 26, NOS. 1-3 CONTENTS JUNE 1997 Preface Alphas — basic questions Alpha oscillations in brain functioning: an integrative theory E. Basar, M. Schirmann, C. Basar-Eroglu, S. Karakag (Germany, Turkey) Alpha rhythms as physiological and abnormal phenomena E. Niedermeyer (USA) Functional distribution of alphas in the brain: EEG and MEG Magnetoencephalographic cortical rhythms R. Hari, R. Salmelin, J.P. Makela, S. Salenius, M. Helle (Finland) Study of human occipital alpha rhythm: the alphon hypothesis and alpha suppression S.J. Williamson, L. Kaufman, Z.-L. Lu, J.-Z. Wang, D. Karron (USA) The possible meaning of the upper and lower alpha frequency ranges for cognitive and creative tasks H. Petsche, S. Kaplan, A. von Stein, O. Filz (Austria) Spatio-temporal dynamics of alpha brain electric fields, and cognitive modes D. Lehmann, T. Koenig (Switzerland) How reproducible is the topographical distribution of EEG amplitude? A. Burgess, J. Gruzelier (UK) Foot and hand area mu rhythms G. Pfurtscheller, Ch. Neuper, C. Andrew, G. Edlinger (Austria) Driven and synchronized brain activities in the a band: a neuromagnetic test for frequency responsiveness L. Narici (Italy) Alpha activity: intracranial measurements and physiology A possible role of evoked alpha in primary sensory processing: common properties of cat intracranial recordings and human EEG and MEG M. Schiirmann, C. Basar-Eroglu, E. Basar (Germany, Turkey) Phase correlation among rhythms present at different frequencies: spectral methods, application to microelectrode recordings from visual cortex and functional implications T. Schanze, R. Eckhorn (Germany) Rhythms in the alpha band in cats and their behavioural correlates A. Rougeul-Buser, P. Buser (France) Low-frequency oscillations of visual, auditory and somatosensory cortical neurons evoked by sensory stimulation H.R. Dinse, K. Kruger, A.C. Akhavan, F. Spengler, G. Schoner, C.E. Schreiner (Germany, USA, France) The contribution of glial cells to spontaneous and evoked potentials R. Galambos, G. Juhasz (USA, Hungary) Nonlinear dynamics and brain function Alpha rhythms: noise, dynamics and models F.H. Lopes da Silva, J. Pijn, D. Velis, P.C.G. Nijssen (The Netherlands) Non-linear dynamics of alpha and theta rhythm: correlation dimensions and Lyapunov exponents from healthy subject's spontaneous EEG J. Roschke, J. Fell, K. Mann (Germany) Segregation of the thalamic alpha rhythm from cortical alpha activity using the Savit—Green S-statistic and estimated correlation dimension W.S. Pritchard, D.W. Duke (USA) EEG alpha dynamics as viewed from EEG dimension dynamics W. Lutzenberger (Germany) Vili 10 Hz in relation to event-related brain activity and memory Visual and auditory evoked phase resetting of the alpha EEG M.E. Brandt (USA) On the relationship between EEG and P300: individual differences, aging, and ultradian rhythms J. Polich (USA) EEG-alpha rhythms and memory processes W. Klimesch (Austria) Models and theories concerning alpha activity Some aspects of alpha activity in relation to a new generalized model for the EEG J.S. Barlow (USA) A descriptive framework for information processing: an integrative approach S. Karakas (Turkey) Alpha rhythm parameters and short-term memory span |.V. Maltseva, Y.P. Masloboev (Russia, Germany) Is there a way from behaviour to non-linear brain dynamics? On quantal periods in cognition and the place of alpha in brain resonances H. Geissler (Germany) Developmental and clinical aspects Normal and pathological changes in alpha rhythms D. Samson-Dollfus, G. Delapierre, C. Do Marcolino, C. Blondeau (France) Alpha response system in children: changes with age J. Yordanova, V. Kolev (Bulgaria) Alpha EEG activity and subcortical pathology in HIV infection T. Baldeweg, J.H. Gruzelier (UK) History The early history of EEG data-processing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts General Hospital J.S. Barlow (USA) Panel discussion Functional correlates of alphas E. Basar, M. Schurmann (Germany) Author index Subject index