A combined event-related potential and neuropsychological investigation of developmental dyscalculia

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 417, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 181-186

  Soltész, Fruzsina ^a   Szucs, Dénes ^a,b   Dékány, Judit ^c   Márkus, Attila ^d   Csépe, Valéria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLOGY   (Hungary)

^c Bárczi Gusztáv College of Special Education   (Hungary)

^d MAV Hospital   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Developmental dyscalculia; Distance effect; Event related potentials; Executive functions; Finger representation; Magnitude representation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DYSCALCULIA; ELECTRODE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION DISORDERS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION; SYMBOLISM;

EID: 34047256253     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.02.067     Document Type: Article

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