Using brain-based measures to compose teams: How individual capabilities and team collaboration strategies jointly shape performance

Social Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 96-105

  Woolley, Anita Williams ^a   Hackman, J Richard ^a   Jerde, Thomas E ^b   Chabris, Christopher F ^a   Bennett, Sean L ^c   Kosslyn, Stephen M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEAMWORK; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 34250014683     PISSN: 17470919     EISSN: 17470927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470910701363041     Document Type: Article

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