Neural correlates of counting large numerosity

ZDM - International Journal on Mathematics Education

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 569-577

  Zago, Laure ^a   Petit, Laurent ^a   Mellet, Emmanuel ^a   Joliot, Marc ^a   Mazoyer, Bernard ^a,b,c   Tzourio Mazoyer, Nathalie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^b INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

^c CAEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Attention; Enumeration; Inferior parietal gyrus; Intraparietal sulcus; Language

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867504176     PISSN: 18639690     EISSN: 18639704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11858-010-0254-9     Document Type: Article

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