Language in calculation: A core mechanism?

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-10

  Benn, Yael ^a   Zheng, Ying ^a   Wilkinson, Iain D ^a   Siegal, Michael ^a   Varley, Rosemary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Angular gyrus; Calculation; Language; Parietal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGULAR GYRUS; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FRONTAL CORTEX; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL CORTEX; PROBLEM SOLVING; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM;

AGED; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FORM PERCEPTION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NERVE NET; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84855730028     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.09.045     Document Type: Article

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