The function of the left angular gyrus in mental arithmetic: Evidence from the associative confusion effect

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1013-1024

  Grabner, Roland H ^a   Ansari, Daniel ^b   Koschutnig, Karl ^c   Reishofer, Gernot ^c   Ebner, Franz ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Default mode network; Fact retrieval; FMRI; Parietal cortex; Problem solving; Symbol referent mapping

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGULAR GYRUS; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; CONFUSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LEFT ANGULAR GYRUS; MALE; PARIETAL CORTEX; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN MAPPING; CONFUSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; OXYGEN; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875887779     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21489     Document Type: Article

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