Grasping numbers

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 188, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 505-515

  Moretto, Giovanna ^a,b   Di Pellegrino, Giuseppe ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b Centro Studi e Ricerche in Neuroscienze Cognitive   (Italy)

Author keywords

Action selection; Grasping; Hand object interaction; Number processing; Numerical magnitude; Parietal lobe; Stimulus response compatibility; Visuomotor transformation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPIRICISM; EXPERIMENT; FEMALE; GESTURE; HAND; HAND GRIP; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION; MALE; PARITY; PRECISION GRIP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SEMANTICS; SURFACE PROPERTY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ADULT; COLOR PERCEPTION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PARIETAL LOBE; POSTURE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 45849133407     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-008-1386-9     Document Type: Article

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