Chapter 5 Dynamic sculpting of brain functional connectivity and mental rotation aptitude

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 159, Issue , 2006, Pages 63-76

  Silberstein, Richard B ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

aptitude; functional connectivity; mental rotation; partial coherence; steady state visually evoked potential; synchronization

Indexed keywords

APTITUDE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STEADY STATE; WORKING MEMORY; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; IMAGINATION; MENTAL FUNCTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; ROTATION;

BRAIN; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MENTAL PROCESSES; NERVE NET; ROTATION;

EID: 33750299575     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(06)59005-3     Document Type: Review

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