Working memory training: Improving intelligence - Changing brain activity

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 96-106

  Jaušovec, Norbert ^a   Jaušovec, Ksenija ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

ERD ERS; Intelligence; NIRS; Training; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARALLEL DESIGN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THETA RHYTHM; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; BRAIN; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED;

EID: 84859132932     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2012.02.007     Document Type: Article

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