Neurocognitive start-up tools for symbolic number representations

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 542-551

  Piazza, Manuela ^a,b  

^a NeuroSpin   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY SYMBOLS; NEURAL CIRCUITS; NUMBER REPRESENTATION; NUMBER SYSTEM; NUMERICAL CONCEPTS; OBJECT TRACKING; START-UPS; SYMBOLIC LEARNING;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NUMBERING SYSTEMS;

TRACKING (POSITION);

ARITHMETIC; BOOTSTRAPPING; CARDINALITY; COGNITION; DEVELOPMENT; DYSCALCULIA; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; NEUROIMAGING; OBJECT TRACKING SYSTEM; PHONETICS; REVIEW; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPACE; SUBITIZING; SUCCESSOR FUNCTION; TIME; WEBER FRACTION; WEBER LAW;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LEARNING; MATHEMATICS; SYMBOLISM;

EID: 78649449902     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2010.09.008     Document Type: Review

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