Effects of interhemispheric communication on two-digit arabic number processing

Cortex

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1128-1137

  Ratinckx, Elie ^a   Nuerk, Hans Christoph ^b   van Dijck, Jean Philippe ^a   Willmes, Klaus ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Interhemispheric communication; Number comparison; Two digit Arabic number; Visual half field

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONCEPT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; SELECTIVE ATTENTION;

EID: 33845608764     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70225-9     Document Type: Article

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