The time course of breaking mental sets and forming novel associations in insight-like problem solving: An ERP investigation

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 212, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 583-591

  Luo, Junlong ^a   Li, Wenfu ^a   Fink, Andreas ^b   Jia, Lei ^a   Xiao, Xiao ^a   Qiu, Jiang ^a   Zhang, Qinglin ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Breaking mental sets; Event related potentials; Forming novel association; Insight like problem solving

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BASELINE LOGOGRIPH; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTROSPECTION; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; STRUCTURAL SIMILARITY LOGOGRIPH; SURFACE SIMILARITY LOGOGRIPH; WORD LIST RECALL;

ASSOCIATION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960962236     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-011-2761-5     Document Type: Article

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