The neuroanatomy of visual enumeration: Differentiating necessary neural correlates for subitizing versus counting in a neuropsychological voxel-based morphometry study

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 948-964

  Demeyere, Nele ^a,b   Rotshtein, Pia ^b   Humphreys, Glyn W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCARINE SULCUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GRAY MATTER; HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRECUNEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84857548809     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00188     Document Type: Article

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