Cognitive Neuroscience: Searching for the Bottleneck in the Brain

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 20, 2008, Pages

  Spence, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; EVOKED RESPONSE; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOLOGICAL REFRACTORY PERIOD; PSYCHOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; COGNITIVE SCIENCE; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REFRACTORY PERIOD, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 54149094518     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.08.039     Document Type: Short Survey

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