Different brains process numbers differently: Structural bases of individual differences in spatial and nonspatial number representations

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 768-776

  Krause, Florian ^a   Lindemann, Oliver ^b   Toni, Ivan ^a   Bekkering, Harold ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESIS; ANGULAR GYRUS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COGNITION; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PRECUNEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; ORGAN SIZE; PARIETAL LOBE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896877449     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00518     Document Type: Article

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