Role of distinct parietal areas in arithmetic: An fMRI-guided TMS study

NeuroImage

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 3048-3056

  Andres, Michael ^a   Pelgrims, Barbara ^a   Michaux, Nicolas ^a   Olivier, Etienne ^a   Pesenti, Mauro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Calculation; Language; Magnitude; Procedure; Retrieval; Semantic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; PARIETAL LOBE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650957417     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.11.009     Document Type: Article

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