Common and segregated neural pathways for the processing of symbolic and nonsymbolic numerical magnitude: An fMRI study

NeuroImage

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1006-1017

  Holloway, Ian D ^a,b   Price, Gavin R ^b   Ansari, Daniel ^a,b  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Angular gyrus; fMRI; Number comparison; Numerical format; Superior parietal lobe; Symbolic mapping

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYMBOLISM; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; READING; SIZE PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349973864     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.07.071     Document Type: Article

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