The organization of brain activations in number comparison: Event-related potentials and the additive-factors method

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 47-68

  Dehaene, Stanislas ^a,b  

^a ÉCOLE DES HAUTES ÉTUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES   (France)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED RESPONSE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0030021315     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.1996.8.1.47     Document Type: Article

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