Using brain imaging to track problem solving in a complex state space

NeuroImage

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 633-643

  Anderson, John R ^a   Fincham, Jon M ^a   Schneider, Darryl W ^a   Yang, Jian ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Hidden Markov Models; Multivoxel pattern matching; Problem solving; Statistical methods

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN MAPPING; CLASSIFICATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GAME; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMPERFECT MEMORY MODEL; MALE; MEMORY GAME; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TEST; MULTIVOXEL PATTERN MATCHING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PROBLEM SOLVING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862806591     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.12.025     Document Type: Article

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