Embodied numbers: The role of vision in the development of number-space interactions

Cortex

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 276-283

  Crollen, Virginie ^a   Dormal, Giulia ^a,b   Seron, Xavier ^a   Lepore, Franco ^b   Collignon, Olivier ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN NEUROPSYCHOLOGIE ET COGNITION   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blindness; External remapping; Numerical cognition; SNARC effect

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ONSET AGE; SEMANTICS; SPATIAL NUMERICAL ASSOCIATION OF RESPONSE CODES; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BLINDNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISION, OCULAR; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS;

EID: 84872145608     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2011.11.006     Document Type: Article

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