Extraversion and cortical activation: Effects of task complexity

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 333-347

  Fink, Andreas ^a   Neubauer, Aljoscha C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Arousal Theory; Complexity; EEG; Event related desynchronization; Extraversion; Intelligence; Neural efficiency; Triplet Numbers test

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346899256     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(03)00100-4     Document Type: Article

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