No horizontal numerical mapping in a culture with mixed-reading habits

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 1 FEB, 2014, Pages

  Rashidi Ranjbar, Neda ^a,b   Goudarzvand, Mahdi ^a   Jahangiri, Sorour ^a   Brugger, Peter ^c,d   Loetscher, Tobias ^e  

^a ALBORZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Automatic processing; Cross cultural; Embodied numerical cognition; Line bisection; Mental number line; Random number generation; Visuo motor behavior

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IRAN; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; READING; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; TASK PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904554342     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00072     Document Type: Article

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