Number-space interactions in the human parietal cortex: Enlightening the snarc effect with functional near-infrared spectroscopy

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 444-451

  Cutini, Simone ^a   Scarpa, Fabio ^a   Scatturin, Pietro ^a   Dell'Acqua, Roberto ^a   Zorzi, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Functional near infrared spectroscopy; Functional neuroimaging; Number space interactions; Numerical cognition; SNARC effect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGULAR GYRUS; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MALE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUMBER SPACE INTERACTION; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

FUNCTIONAL NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; NUMBER-SPACE INTERACTIONS; NUMERICAL COGNITION; SNARC EFFECT;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84896361281     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs321     Document Type: Article

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