Number Processing

Handbook of the Neuroscience of Language

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 219-228

  Semenza, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-08-045352-1.00021-5     Document Type: Chapter

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37. Updated information on the progress in the field can be obtained by visiting the website of NUMBRA, a Marie Curie funded European network devoted to the study of (neuro)psychology of math: . http://www.math.nmi.jyu.fi/numbra/.