Scaling laws in cognitive sciences

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 223-232

  Kello, Christopher T ^a   Brown, Gordon D A ^b   Ferrer i Cancho, Ramon ^c   Holden, John G ^d   Linkenkaer Hansen, Klaus ^e   Rhodes, Theo ^a   Van Orden, Guy C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^e VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

ADAPTIVE PROCESS; COGNITIVE MECHANISMS; COGNITIVE SCIENCE; INTER-DEPENDENT COMPONENTS; SCALING INVARIANCE;

SCALING LAWS;

ACTION POTENTIAL; BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS CONCERNING THE ENTIRE ORGANISM; COGNITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; REVIEW; SCALING LAW; WORD RECOGNITION; BRAIN; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE;

BRAIN; COGNITION; COGNITIVE SCIENCE; HUMANS; MEMORY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 77952677475     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2010.02.005     Document Type: Review

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