Rethinking Neural Efficiency: Effects of Controlling for Strategy Use

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 854-870

  Toffanin, Paolo ^a,b   Johnson, Addie ^b   de Jong, Ritske ^b   Martens, Sander ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

event related desynchronization; intelligence; neural efficiency; strategy control

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTELLIGENCE TEST; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; RESPONSE TIME; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 35748929122     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.121.5.854     Document Type: Article

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