A brain for numbers

Cortex

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 796-803

  Sandrini, Marco ^a   Rusconi, Elena ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Finger counting; Number processing; Parietal cortex; Primary motor cortex; Spatial attention; TMS

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL CAPACITY; NATURAL SCIENCE; RESEARCH; SKILL; THEORY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

BRAIN; COGNITION; COGNITIVE SCIENCE; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 67349177096     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2008.09.002     Document Type: Article

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