Surface EEG shows that functional segregation via phase coupling contributes to the neural substrate of mental calculations

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 45-52

  Dimitriadis, Stavros I ^a,b   Kanatsouli, Kassiani ^c   Laskaris, Nikolaos A ^a   Tsirka, Vasso ^c   Vourkas, Michael ^d   Micheloyannis, Sifis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^d Technical High School of Crete   (Greece)

Author keywords

EEG; Graph theoretic analysis; Mathematical cognition; Phase synchrony

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; BIOSENSOR; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUCNTIONAL SEGREGATION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINEAR SYSTEM; MENTAL TASK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THINKING;

EID: 84861210316     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2012.04.001     Document Type: Article

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