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Linking Elementary Properties of the Human Brain to the Behaviour Captured on Touchscreen Smartphones

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Explaining how the human brain operates in the real world remains far from the reach of modern systems and cognitive neuroscience. The brain is measured in highly controlled laboratory settings and most neuroscientific research is laser focused on explaining highly simplistic behaviours designed in the laboratory. The ubiquitous use of smartphones provides a fresh opportunity to radically reverse this trend by providing a quantitative insight into human actions in the real world. Addressing how this digital behaviour maps onto elementary neuronal measures is a powerful starting point towards appreciating the complexity of human actions.

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  1. Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Winterthurerstr. 190, 8057, Zurich, Switzerland

    Arko Ghosh

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  1. Institute of Psychology and Education, Molecular Psychology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

    Christian Montag

  2. Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany

    Martin Reuter

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Ghosh, A. (2017). Linking Elementary Properties of the Human Brain to the Behaviour Captured on Touchscreen Smartphones. In: Montag, C., Reuter, M. (eds) Internet Addiction. Studies in Neuroscience, Psychology and Behavioral Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46276-9_22

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