The time course of Chinese riddles solving: Evidence from an ERP study

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 278-282

  Wang, Ting ^a,b   Zhang, Qinglin ^a,b   Li, Hong ^a,b   Qiu, Jiang ^a,b   Tu, Shen ^a,b   Yu, Caiyun ^a,b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

ERPs (event related potentials); Insight problems; Routine problems

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN REGION; CHINESE; DIPOLE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTROSPECTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SUBICULUM;

BRAIN; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 61349110671     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.12.002     Document Type: Article

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