Integral calculus problem solving: An fMRI investigation

NeuroReport

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1095-1099

  Krueger, Frank ^a   Spampinato, Maria Vittoria ^c   Pardini, Matteo ^d   Pajevic, Sinisa ^b   Wood, Jacqueline N ^a   Weiss, George H ^b   Landgraf, Steffen ^e   Grafman, Jordan ^a,f  

^a NINDS   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^e SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arithmetic; Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; Intraparietal sulcus; Mathematics; Superior parietal lobe

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CINGULATE GYRUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL TASK; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SUBICULUM; TASK PERFORMANCE; BRAIN; COGNITION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; BRAIN; COGNITION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 49949115092     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e328303fd85     Document Type: Article

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