Bisecting the mental number line in near and far space

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 362-367

  Longo, Matthew R ^a   Lourenco, Stella F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mental number line; Near space; Peripersonal space; Spatial attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DEPRIVATION;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; PARIETAL LOBE; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REFERENCE VALUES; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77249089220     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2009.10.016     Document Type: Article

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