Scalp electrical recording during paralysis: Quantitative evidence that EEG frequencies above 20Hz are contaminated by EMG

@article{Whitham2007ScalpER,
  title={Scalp electrical recording during paralysis: Quantitative evidence that EEG frequencies above 20Hz are contaminated by EMG},
  author={Emma M. Whitham and Kenneth J. Pope and Sean P. Fitzgibbon and Trent W. Lewis and C. Richard Clark and Stephen Loveless and Marita Broberg and Angus Wallace and Dylan DeLosAngeles and Peter Lillie and Andrew Hardy and R. R. L. Fronsko and Alyson Pulbrook and John O. Willoughby},
  journal={Clinical Neurophysiology},
  year={2007},
  volume={118},
  pages={1877-1888}
}
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