All for one but not one for all: How multiple number representations are recruited in one numerical task

Brain Research

Volumn 1187, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 154-166

  Wood, Guilherme ^a,b   Nuerk, Hans Christoph ^a,b   Moeller, Korbinian ^b   Geppert, Barbara ^a   Schnitker, Ralph ^a   Weber, Jochen ^a   Willmes, Klaus ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Decade crossing; Distance effect; Multiplication fact knowledge; Number bisection task; Number magnitude processing; Parametric fMRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL PROCESSES; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SYMBOLISM;

EID: 36549041352     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.09.094     Document Type: Article

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