Fluid intelligence and neural efficiency: Effects of task complexity and sex

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 811-827

  Neubauer, Aljoscha C ^a   Fink, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Complexity; EEG; Event related desynchronisation; Fluid intelligence; Intelligence; Neural efficiency; Reaction times; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041340836     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(02)00285-4     Document Type: Article

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