Information transfer during a transitive reasoning task

Brain Topography

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-8

  Brzezicka, Aneta ^a   Kamiński, Maciej ^b   Kamiński, Jan ^c   Blinowska, Katarzyna ^b  

^a SWPS UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Directed transfer function; Frontal theta; Reasoning; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THETA RHYTHM; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; BRAIN WAVES; COGNITION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; THETA RHYTHM; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951722849     PISSN: 08960267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10548-010-0158-6     Document Type: Article

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