You can count on the motor cortex: Finger counting habits modulate motor cortex activation evoked by numbers

NeuroImage

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 3139-3148

  Tschentscher, Nadja ^a   Hauk, Olaf ^a   Fischer, Martin H ^b,c   Pulvermüller, Friedemann ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Embodied cognition; Finger counting habits; Numerical cognition; SNARC effect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SYMBOLISM; WORD LIST RECALL;

ADULT; FEMALE; FINGERS; HABITS; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MOTOR CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855173839     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.11.037     Document Type: Article

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