Numerical ordering and symbolic arithmetic share frontal and parietal circuits in the right hemisphere

NeuroImage

Volumn 84, Issue , 2014, Pages 786-795

  Knops, André ^a,b,c   Willmes, Klaus ^b,c  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Across voxel correlation; BA 44; IPS; Mental arithmetic; Mental number line; Order

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL CORTEX; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MALE; MENTAL ARITHMETIC; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACROSS VOXEL CORRELATION; BA 44; IPS; MENTAL ARITHMETIC; MENTAL NUMBER LINE; ORDER;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PARIETAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885805473     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.09.037     Document Type: Article

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