The speed of magnitude processing and executive functions in controlled and automatic number comparison in children: An electro-encephalography study

Behavioral and Brain Functions

Volumn 3, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Szcs, Dénes ^a   Soltész, Fruzsina ^a   Jármi, Éva ^c   Csépe, Valéria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLOGY   (Hungary)

^c EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COGNITION; CONCEPT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 34249662058     PISSN: 17449081     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-9081-3-23     Document Type: Article

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