How to discover modules in mind and brain: The curse of nonlinearity, and blessing of neuroimaging. A comment on Sternberg (2011)

Cognitive Neuropsychology

Volumn 28, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 209-223

  Henson, R N ^a  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive neuroscience; Cognitive psychology; Dissociations; Electroencephalography; functional magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COGNITION; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; NOTE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

BRAIN; COGNITION; HUMANS; NEURONS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84855456584     PISSN: 02643294     EISSN: 14640627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2011.561305     Document Type: Article

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