Humans cannot consciously generate random numbers sequences: Polemic study

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 182-185

  Figurska, Małgorzata ^a   Stańczyk, Maciej ^a   Kulesza, Kamil ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; KNOWLEDGE; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; POLEMIC STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RADIOACTIVITY; RANDOM NUMBER SEQUENCE; RANDOMIZATION;

CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL PROCESSES; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

EID: 36349037056     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2007.06.038     Document Type: Article

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