Processing of abstract ordinal knowledge in the horizontal segment of the intraparietal sulcus

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 33, 2007, Pages 8952-8956

  Fias, Wim ^a,b   Lammertyn, Jan ^a   Caessens, Bernie ^a   Orban, Guy A ^c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c KU LEUVEN UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Abstract cognition; Anterior intraparietal sulcus; fMRI; Number processing; Ordinality; Parietal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS HORIZONTAL SEGMENT; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KNOWLEDGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; OXYGEN; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 34548103808     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2076-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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