Neural dissociation of number from letter recognition and its relationship to parietal numerical processing

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 39-50

  Park, Joonkoo ^a   Hebrank, Andrew ^b   Polk, Thad A ^a   Park, Denise C ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONSONANT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICS; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL GYRUS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADULT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL PROCESSES; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 81455134494     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00085     Document Type: Article

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