Numbers can move our hands: A spatial representation effect in digits handwriting

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 205, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 479-487

  Perrone, Gelsomina ^a   De Hevia, Maria Dolores ^b   Bricolo, Emanuela ^a   Girelli, Luisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Action planning; Mental number line; Number handwriting; Spatial representation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HANDWRITING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WRITING; ADULT; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAND; MATHEMATICS; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADULT; FEMALE; HAND; HANDWRITING; HUMANS; INTENTION; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MOVEMENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79957704565     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-010-2383-3     Document Type: Article

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