Cerebral activations during number multiplication and comparison: A PET study

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1097-1106

  Dehaene, Stanislas ^a   Tzourio, Nathalie ^b,d   Frak, Victor ^a,b   Raynaud, Laurence ^b   Cohen, Laurent ^a,c   Mehler, Jacques ^a   Mazoyer, Bernard ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b SERVICE HOSPITALIER FRÉDÉRIC JOLIOT   (France)

^c PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^d Lab Sci Cognitives P   (France)

Author keywords

Acalculia; Cerebral blood flow; Parietal cortex; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0030297661     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0028-3932(96)00027-9     Document Type: Article

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