The processing of non-symbolic numerical magnitudes as indexed by ERPs

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2532-2544

  Paulsen, David J ^a   Neville, Helen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic; Individual differences; N400; Number; Priming; Proficiency; Semantic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR VISION TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; PHONEME; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL PROCESSES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 44649201086     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.04.003     Document Type: Article

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