Cerebral pathways for calculation: Double dissociation between rote verbal and quantitative knowledge of arithmetic

Cortex

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 219-250

  Dehaene, Stanislas ^a,c   Cohen, Laurent ^b  

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

^b PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^c DIF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; DISSOCIATION; FEMALE; GERSTMANN SYNDROME; HUMAN; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0030878356     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70002-9     Document Type: Article

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