Dissociable stages of problem solving (I): Temporal characteristics revealed by eye-movement analyses

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 160-169

  Nitschke, Kai ^a,b   Ruh, Nina ^a,b   Kappler, Sonja ^a   Stahl, Christoph ^b,c   Kaller, Christoph P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Planning; Prefrontal cortex; Problem solving; Tower of London task

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNALIZATION; LEFT DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MALE; MENTAL TASK; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; RIGHT DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84864294549     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2012.05.003     Document Type: Article

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