Neurophysiological evidence for the validity of verbal strategy reports in mental arithmetic

Biological Psychology

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 128-136

  Grabner, Roland H ^a   De Smedt, Bert ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Arithmetic; ERD; ERS; Fact retrieval; Oscillatory EEG; Problem size; Problem solving strategies; Verbal strategy reports

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THETA RHYTHM; VALIDATION STUDY; VERBALIZATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL PROCESSES; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953293829     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2011.02.019     Document Type: Article

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