The neural basis of insight problem solving: An event-related potential study

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 100-106

  Qiu, Jiang ^a   Li, Hong ^a   Yang, Dong ^a   Luo, Yuejia ^b,c   Li, Ying ^a   Wu, Zhenzhen ^a   Zhang, Qinglin ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese logogriph; ERPs (event related potentials); Insight; Problem solving

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 52949113030     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2008.03.004     Document Type: Article

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