Numerical distance effect in the N240 component in a number-matching task

NeuroReport

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 991-994

  Zhou, Xinlin ^a   Chen, Chuansheng ^b   Dong, Qi ^a   Zhang, Hongchuan ^a   Chen, Chunhui ^a   Qiao, Sibing ^a   Zhao, Hui ^a   Jiang, Ting ^a   Guo, Yi ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Numerical cognition; Numerical distance effect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL PROCESSES; REACTION TIME;

EID: 33745477932     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.wnr.0000221840.12632.9f     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Moyer RS, Landauer TK. The time required for judgments of numerical inequality. Nature 1967; 215:1519-1520.
2. Duncan EM, McFarland CE. Isolating the effect of symbolic distance and semantic congruity in comparative judgments: an additive-factors analysis. Mem Cogn 1980; 8:612-622.
3. Girelli L, Lucangeli D, Butterworth B. The development of automaticity in accessing number magnitude. J Exp Child Psychol 2000; 76:104-122.
4. Noël MP, Rousselle L, Mussolin C. Magnitude representation in children: its development and dysfunction. In: Campbell JID, editor. Handbook of mathematical cognition. New York: Psychology Press; 2005. pp. 179-195.
5. Dehaene S, Bossini S, Giraux P. The mental representation of parity and number magnitude. J Exp Psychol Genet 1993; 122:371-396.
6. Dehaene S. The organization of brain activations in number comparison: event-related potentials and the additive-factors method. J Cogn Neurosci 1996; 8:47-68.
7. Kadosh RC, Henik A, Rubinsten O, Harald Mohr H, Dori H, van de Ven V, et al. Are numbers special? The comparison systems of the human brain investigated by fMRI. Neuropsychologia 2005; 43:1238-1248.
8. Kaufmann L, Koppelstaetter F, Delazer M, Siedentopf C, Rhomberg P, Golaszewski S, et al. Neural correlates of distance and congruity effects in a numerical Stroop task: an event-related fMRI study. Neuroimage 2005; 25:888-898.
9. Pinel P, Dehaene S, Riviere D, LeBihan D. Modulation of parietal activation by semantic distance in a number comparison task. Neuroimage 2001; 14:1013-1026.
10. Dehaene S, Piazza M, Pinel P and Cohen L. Three parietal circuits for number processing. Cogn Neuropsychol 2003; 20:487-506.
11. Niedeggen M, Rosler F. N400 effects reflect activation spread during retrieval of arithmetic facts. Psychol Sci 1999; 10:271-276.
12. Szucs D, Csepe V. The effect of numerical distance and stimulus probability on ERP components elicited by numerical incongruencies in mental addition. Cogn Brain Res 2005; 22:289-300.
13. Temple E, Posner MI. Brain mechanisms of quantity are similar in 5-year-old children and adults. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1998; 95:7836-7841.