Contribution of frontal cortex to the spatial representation of number

Cortex

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 2-13

  Rusconi, Elena ^a,b   Bueti, Domenica ^a   Walsh, Vincent ^a   Butterworth, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Frontal cortex; Number; SNARC; Space; TMS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 78649891530     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.08.005     Document Type: Article

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