Individual differences in nonverbal number discrimination correlate with event-related potentials and measures of probabilistic reasoning

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 3687-3695

  Paulsen, David J ^a   Woldorff, Marty G ^a,b   Brannon, Elizabeth M ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Direction effects; Discrimination; Distance effects; ERP; Individual differences; Magnitude; Mathematics; Number; Numeracy; Numerical; Probabilistic reasoning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PROBABILITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 78149416031     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.08.014     Document Type: Article

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