Neural correlates in exceptional mental arithmetic-About the neural architecture of prodigious skills

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1407-1416

  Fehr, Thorsten ^a,b   Weber, Jochen ^c,e   Willmes, Klaus ^c,d   Herrmann, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^e Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Complex mental processing; FMRI; Higher order cognition; Learning; Mental training; Neural plasticity; Prodigies; Prodigious skills; Savants

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CALCULATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; SKILL; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; BRAIN; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MOTIVATION; NERVE NET; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949775698     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.01.007     Document Type: Article

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