The neural basis of intuitive best next-move generation in board game experts

Science

Volumn 331, Issue 6015, 2011, Pages 341-346

  Wan, Xiaohong ^a   Nakatani, Hironori ^a   Ueno, Kenichi ^a   Asamizuya, Takeshi ^a   Cheng, Kang ^a   Tanaka, Keiji ^a  

^a RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COGNITION; NEUROLOGY;

ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GAME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL TASK; NEUROSCIENCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRECUNEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; HUMANS; INTUITION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 78751687449     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1194732     Document Type: Article

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