Effects of number magnitude and notation at 7T: Separating the neural response to small and large, symbolic and nonsymbolic number

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2199-2209

  He, Lixia ^a   Zuo, Zhentao ^a   Chen, Lin ^a   Humphreys, Glyn ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

FMRI at 7T; Intraparietal sulcus; Numerical cognition; Right TPJ

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL CORTEX; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; MENTAL FUNCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; MENTAL PROCESSES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84895555571     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bht074     Document Type: Article

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