Counting in everyday life: Discrimination and enumeration

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1103-1113

  Nan, Yun ^a,b   Knösche, Thomas R ^a,b   Luo, Yue Jia ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Counting; Event related potential (ERP); Subitizing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNTING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 33646099384     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2005.10.020     Document Type: Article

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