Electrophysiological correlates of non-symbolic numerical magnitude processing in children: Joining the dots

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3238-3246

  Heine, Angela ^a   Tamm, Sascha ^a   Wißmann, Jacqueline ^a   Jacobs, Arthur M ^a,b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Dahlem Institute for Neuroimaging of Emotion (DINE)   (Germany)

Author keywords

Current source localization; ERPs; Estimation; Non symbolic numerical comparison; Numerical distance effect; Subitizing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELEMENTARY STUDENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGINATION; MALE; MATHEMATICS; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL RECRUITMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRECUNEUS; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SYMBOLISM; VISION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 80053582348     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.07.028     Document Type: Article

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