Brain correlates of non-symbolic numerosity estimation in low and high mathematical ability children

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Kovas, Yulia ^a,c   Giampietro, Vincent ^a   Viding, Essi ^a,b   Ng, Virginia ^a   Brammer, Michael ^a   Barker, Gareth J ^a   Happé, Francesca G E ^a   Plomin, Robert ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; SCHOOL CHILD;

EID: 84887212504     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004587     Document Type: Article

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