How specifically do we learn? Imaging the learning of multiplication and subtraction

NeuroImage

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1365-1375

  Ischebeck, Anja ^a   Zamarian, Laura ^a,b   Siedentopf, Christian ^a   Koppelstätter, Florian ^a   Benke, Thomas ^a   Felber, Stefan ^a   Delazer, Margarete ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LEARNING STYLE; MALE; MATHEMATICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 33646150434     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.11.016     Document Type: Article

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