Distinct cerebral pathways for object identity and number in human infants

PLoS Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 0275-0285

  Izard, Véronique ^a,b,c,d   Dehaene Lambertz, Ghislaine ^a,b,c,e   Dehaene, Stanislas ^a,b,c,f  

^a Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit ^*  (France)

^b DIF   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e BICÊTRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^f l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LEARNING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TOPOGRAPHY; VISION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; OBJECT RELATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INFANT; OBJECT ATTACHMENT;

EID: 40149084328     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060011     Document Type: Article

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