Searching for the majority: Algorithms of voluntary control

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Fan, Jin ^a   Guise, Kevin G ^a   Liu, Xun ^a   Wang, Hongbin ^b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; MOTOR CONTROL; REACTION TIME; SENSORY STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; INNERVATION; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ATTENTION; BRAIN; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 55849089188     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003522     Document Type: Article

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