Touch perception reveals the dominance of spatial over digital representation of numbers

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 5644-5648

  Brozzoli, Claudio ^a,b   Ishihara, Masami ^c   Göbel, Silke M ^d   Salemme, Roméo ^a,b   Rossetti, Yves ^a,b   Farne, Alessandro ^a,b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mental number line; Tactile perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN FUNCTION; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FINGER; HAND; HAND PALM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL FUNCTION; MODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TOUCH;

ADULT; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL PROCESSES; MIDDLE AGED; SPACE PERCEPTION; TOUCH;

EID: 44449084756     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0708414105     Document Type: Article

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