Intelligence and individual differences in becoming neurally efficient

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 55-74

  Neubauer, Aljoscha C ^a   Grabner, Roland H ^a   Freudenthaler, H Harald ^a   Beckmann, Jens F ^b   Guthke, Jürgen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Personality Psychology/Psychodiagn   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cortical activation; EEG; Intelligence; Learning ability; Neural efficiency

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CONDUCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL CONDUCTION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 1942506794     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2003.11.005     Document Type: Article

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