When brightness counts: The neuronal correlate of numerical-luminance interference

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 337-343

  Kadosh, Roi Cohen ^a,b,d   Kadosh, Kathrin Cohen ^a,c   Henik, Avishai ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conflict task; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Intraparietal sulcus; Magnitude; Numerical cognition; Size congruity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; MALE; NERVE CELL; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICS; NEURONS; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING;

EID: 38849136551     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhm058     Document Type: Article

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