The neuroscience of time and number: Untying the Gordian knot

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Lustig, Cindy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; MEMORY; MENTAL TASK; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROSCIENCE; NUMBER; PACEMAKER; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TIME;

EID: 82255180007     PISSN: 16625145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2011.00047     Document Type: Article

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