Overlapping and distinct neural representations of numbers and verbal transitive series

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 720-729

  Prado, Jérôme ^a,b   Noveck, Ira A ^b   Van Der Henst, Jean Baptiste ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; FMRI; Intraparietal sulcus; Numerical cognition; Transitive reasoning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE; LOGIC; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LOGIC; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL PROCESSES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 76749105159     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhp137     Document Type: Article

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