Behavioral and near-infrared spectroscopy study of the effects of distance and choice in a number comparison task

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 294-301

  Horaguchi, Takahiro ^a   Ogata, Yousuke ^a   Watanabe, Noriya ^a   Yamamoto, Miyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Human; Near infrared spectroscopy; Number comparison; Parietal cortex

Indexed keywords

OXYHEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYHEMOGLOBINS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 43949104045     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2008.03.011     Document Type: Article

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