Dissociating response conflict from numerical magnitude processing in the brain: An event-related fMRI study

NeuroImage

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 799-805

  Ansari, Daniel ^a   Fugelsang, Jonathan A ^b   Dhital, Bibek ^a   Venkatraman, Vinod ^c  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c Singapore Health Services   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Conflict; Distance effect; Intraparietal sulcus; Numerical cognition; Size congruity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; NERVE NET; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; SIZE PERCEPTION; STATISTICS;

EID: 33746642568     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.04.184     Document Type: Article

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