Neural correlates of numbers and mathematical terms

NeuroImage

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 230-240

  Zhang, Han ^a   Chen, Chuansheng ^b   Zhou, Xinlin ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); Mathematical cognition; Mathematical term; Numerical processing

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ALGEBRAIC TERM; ARABIC NUMBER; ARTICLE; BRAIN ACTIVATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GEOMETRIC TERM; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUMERICAL PROCESSING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTICS; TOOL WORDS;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; SEMANTICS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862796064     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.12.006     Document Type: Article

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