Analysing humanly generated random number sequences: A pattern-based approach

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Schulz, Marc André ^a   Schmalbach, Barbara ^b   Brugger, Peter ^c   Witt, Karsten ^b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION TASK; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84864267647     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041531     Document Type: Article

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