Common substrate for mental arithmetic and finger representation in the parietal cortex

NeuroImage

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1520-1528

  Andres, Michael ^a,b   Michaux, Nicolas ^a   Pesenti, Mauro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Calculation; Counting; Embodied cognition; Memory retrieval

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BOLD SIGNAL; EXTRASTRIATE BODY AREA; FINGER; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROPRIOCEPTION; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PARIETAL LOBE; PROBLEM SOLVING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863424620     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.05.047     Document Type: Article

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