Spatial attention determines the nature of nonverbal number representation

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2336-2351

  Hyde, Daniel C ^a   Wood, Justin N ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960112305     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21581     Document Type: Article

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