Thelanguage-numberinterfaceinthebrain: Acomplex parametric study of quantifiers and quantities

Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue MAR, 2012, Pages

  Heim, Stefan ^a,b,c,d   Amunts, Katrin ^a,b,d   Drai, Dan ^e   Eickhoff, Simon B ^a,b,d,f   Hautvast, Sarah ^b   Grodzinsky, Yosef ^b,g  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^d Julich Aachen Research Alliance   (Germany)

^e Inter Disciplinary Center   (Israel)

^f HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

BA 45; Broca's area; Estimation; fMRI; intraparietal sulcus; Numerosity; Semantics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874206644     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1663070X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnevo.2012.00004     Document Type: Article

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