On the energy cost of mental effort

Journal of the History of the Neurosciences

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 31-47

  Sourkes, Theodore L ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atwater, W. O.; Benedict, F. G.; Berger, H.; Breuer, J.; Carpenter, T. M.; Chlopin, G. V.; Cognitive function and energy consumption; Conservation of Energy; Energy; Fluorodeoxyglucose method; Freud, S.; Gloor, P.; Griesinger, W.; Helmholtz, H. von

Indexed keywords

BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN REGION; CALORIMETRY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COGNITION; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY COST; HUMAN; IMAGING; INTELLIGENCE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL TASK; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NATURAL SCIENCE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; THINKING;

EXERTION; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MENTAL PROCESSES; PORTRAITS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 32144460138     PISSN: 0964704X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/096470490944860     Document Type: Review

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