Are low and high number magnitudes processed differently while resolving the conflict evoked by the SNARC effect?

International Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 7-16

  Gut, Małgorzata ^a   Szumska, Izabela ^a   Wasilewska, Marzena ^a   Jaśkowski, Piotr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND MANAGEMENT   (Poland)

Author keywords

Conflict; Event related potentials; Executive attention; Number magnitude; SNARC effect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONFLICT; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUMBER MAGNITUDE; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPATIAL NUMERICAL ASSOCIATION OF RESPONSE CODE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862760947     PISSN: 01678760     EISSN: 18727697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2012.02.007     Document Type: Article

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