Spatial intuition in elementary arithmetic: A neurocomputational account

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Chen, Qi ^a,b   Verguts, Tom ^b  

^a MOSS REHABILITATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELEMENTARY ARITHMETIC; INTUITION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PARIETAL CORTEX; RADIAL BASED FUNCTION; SPATIAL ARITHMETIC MODEL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICS; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY;

HUMANS; INTUITION; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PARIETAL LOBE; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84856926342     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031180     Document Type: Article

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