When less is more and when more is more: The mediating roles of capacity and speed in brain-behavior efficiency

Intelligence

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 207-222

  Rypma, Bart ^a,b   Prabhakaran, Vivek ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; Executive control; Functional MRI; Human brain

Indexed keywords

EID: 60849115539     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2008.12.004     Document Type: Article

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