Breaking ranks: Space and number may march to the beat of a different drum

Cortex

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1124-1127

  Rusconi, Elena ^a   Umiltà, Carlo ^b   Galfano, Giovanni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attention; Number line; Simon effect; SNARC effect; Space processing; SRC

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; COGNITION; CONCEPT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MOTOR COORDINATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NOTE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 33845648943     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70224-7     Document Type: Article

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