Similarities and differences in the coding of numerical and alphabetical order using acoustic stimulation as revealed by event-related potentials in humans

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 360, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 65-68

  Szucs, Dénes ^a,b   Csépe, Valéria ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLOGY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alphabetical position; Distance effect; Event related potentials; Numerical magnitude; Ordinal representation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CODING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 1842713265     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.02.038     Document Type: Article

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