Simple mental arithmetic is not so simple: An ERP study of the split and odd-even effects in mental arithmetic

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 510, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 62-66

  Chen, Yalin ^a   Liu, Chang ^a   Xu, Xiaodong ^a   Zhang, Xiaojiang ^a   Shen, Wangbing ^a  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Event related potential ERP; Non retrieval; Parity odd even effect; Split effect; Strategy selection in mental arithmetic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLOW BRAIN WAVE; STUDENT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84862821644     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.01.005     Document Type: Article

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