Sex differences in brain activity related to general and emotional intelligence

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 277-286

  Jaušovec, Norbert ^a   Jaušovec, Ksenija ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Emotional intelligence; Intelligence; Resting EEG; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SEX DIFFERENCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 28744449276     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2005.08.001     Document Type: Article

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