The brain as a distributed intelligent processing system: An EEG study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  da Rocha, Armando Freitas ^a   Rocha, Fábio Theoto ^a   Massad, Eduardo ^b  

^a Research on Natural and Artificial Intelligence (RANI)   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRIBUTED INTELLIGENT PROCESSING SYSTEM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; SCHOOL CHILD; VALIDITY; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE; ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENTROPY; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENTROPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952672985     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017355     Document Type: Article

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