Spatiotemporal dynamics of processing nonsymbolic number: An event-related potential source localization study

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2189-2203

  Hyde, Daniel C ^a   Spelke, Elizabeth S ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Brain electrophysiology; Cognition; Parietal lobe

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LOCALIZATION ALGORITHM; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL PROCESSES; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83755188807     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21352     Document Type: Article

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