Number forms in the brain

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1547-1556

  Tang, Joey ^a,b   Ward, Jamie ^a   Butterworth, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SPACE PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 50649109798     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2008.20120     Document Type: Article

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