Neural correlates of mental preparation for successful insight problem solving

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 216, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 626-630

  Tian, F ^a,b   Tu, S ^a,b   Qiu, J ^a,b   Lv, J Y ^a,b   Wei, D T ^a,b   Su, Y H ^a,b   Zhang, Q L ^a,b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Event related fMRI; Insight; Medial frontal cortex; Mental preparation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGENATION; CEREBELLUM; CHINESE; CLAUSTRUM; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTROSPECTION; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENTION; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78149499482     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.09.005     Document Type: Article

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