Listening to numbers affects visual and haptic bisection in healthy individuals and neglect patients

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 913-925

  Cattaneo, Zaira ^a   Fantino, Micaela ^b   Mancini, Flavia ^a   Mattioli, Flavia ^c   Vallar, Giuseppe ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c Ospedali Civili of Brescia   (Italy)

^d ISTITUTO AUXOLOGICO ITALIANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Crossmodal interaction; Haptic; Line bisection; Mental number line; Neglect; Numerical cognition; Priming; Visual

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; ITALY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; NEUROIMAGING; PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOUCH; UNILATERAL SPATIAL NEGLECT; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN INJURIES; CUES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOUCH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84858442095     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.01.031     Document Type: Article

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