The role of finger representations and saccades for number processing: An fMRI study in children

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue DEC, 2011, Pages

  Krinzinger, Helga ^a   Koten, Jan Willem ^a   Horoufchin, Houpand ^a   Kohn, Nils ^a,b   Arndt, Dominique ^c   Sahr, Katleen ^c   Konrad, Kerstin ^a   Willmes, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b Translational Brain Medicine   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Canonical numerical hand shapes; Movement vocabulary; Ordinal aspects of cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862664878     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00373     Document Type: Article

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