The calculating brain: An fMRI study

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 325-335

  Rickard, T C ^a   Romero, S G ^b   Basso, G ^c   Wharton, C ^c   Flitman, S ^d   Grafman, J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arithmetic; Cognition; fMRI; Math; Number processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MOTOR CONTROL; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL PROCESSES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0033990853     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(99)00068-8     Document Type: Article

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