Frontal and parietal contributions to arithmetic fact retrieval: A parametric analysis of the problem-size effect

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 51-59

  Jost, Kerstin ^a,b   Khader, Patrick H ^b   Burke, Michael ^b,c   Bien, Siegfried ^b   Rösler, Frank ^b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c GE HEALTHCARE   (Germany)

Author keywords

ERPs; Fact retrieval; FMRI; Mental arithmetic; Multiplication; Parametric analysis; Problem size effect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL RECALL; PARIETAL LOBE; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 78650024577     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21002     Document Type: Article

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