Neural efficiency as a function of task demands

Intelligence

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 22-30

  Dunst, Beate ^a   Benedek, Mathias ^a   Jauk, Emanuel ^a   Bergner, Sabine ^a   Koschutnig, Karl ^a   Sommer, Markus ^a   Ischebeck, Anja ^a   Spinath, Birgit ^c   Arendasy, Martin ^a   Bühner, Markus ^b   Freudenthaler, Heribert ^a   Neubauer, Aljoscha C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

FMRI; Intelligence; Neural efficiency; Tailored testing; Task difficulty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887381921     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2013.09.005     Document Type: Article

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