Asymmetric prefrontal cortex functions predict asymmetries in number space

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 306-311

  Bachmann, Valérie ^a   Fischer, Martin H ^b   Landolt, Hans Peter ^a   Brugger, P ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Executive functions; Functional hemispheric asymmetry; Number processing; Prefrontal cortex; Random number generation; Spatial attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SPACE PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 78049447421     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2010.08.011     Document Type: Article

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