Perceiving numbers alters time perception

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 438, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 308-311

  Oliveri, Massimiliano ^a,b   Vicario, Carmelo Mario ^a,d   Salerno, Silvia ^a   Koch, Giacomo ^b,c   Turriziani, Patrizia ^a   Mangano, Renata ^a   Chillemi, Gaetana ^a   Caltagirone, Carlo ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Magnitude; Numbers; Time perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNITUDE ESTIMATION METHOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 44349147792     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.04.051     Document Type: Article

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