Frontal lobe role in simple arithmetic calculations: An fNIR study

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 510, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 43-47

  Meiri, Hedva ^a   Sela, Itamar ^a,b   Nesher, Pearla ^a   Izzetoglu, Meltem ^b   Izzetoglu, Kurtulus ^b   Onaral, Banu ^b   Breznitz, Zvia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arithmetic processing; Calculation; FNIR; Frontal lobe

Indexed keywords

DEOXYHEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COMPUTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STUDENT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUESTIONNAIRES; REACTION TIME; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84856559034     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.12.066     Document Type: Article

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