Number representation deficit: A bilingual case of failure to access written verbal numeral representations

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 40, Issue 13, 2002, Pages 2341-2349

  Proios, Hariklia ^a   Weniger, Dorothea ^a   Willmes, Klaus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bilingual; Magnitude comparison task; Number processing; Written number translation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; NEGATIVE SYNDROME; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MATHEMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILINGUALISM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0036412760     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(02)00085-4     Document Type: Article

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