Event-related potentials for simple arithmetic in Arabic digits and Chinese number words: a study of the mental representation of arithmetic facts through notation and operation effects

Brain Research

Volumn 1302, Issue , 2009, Pages 212-224

  Zhou, Xinlin ^a   Chen, Chuansheng ^b   Qiao, Sibing ^a   Chen, Chunhui ^a   Chen, Lan ^a   Lu, Na ^a   Dong, Qi ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arithmetic facts; Cognitive arithmetic; Event related potentials; N300 component; Numerical cognition; Representation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY; MENTAL PROCESSES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; SYMBOLISM; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 71849116837     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.09.024     Document Type: Article

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