Origins and Development of Generalized Magnitude Representation

Space, Time and Number in the Brain

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 225-244

  Lourenco, Stella F ^a   Longo, Matthew R ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-385948-8.00015-3     Document Type: Chapter

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