Developmental dissociation in the neural responses to simple multiplication and subtraction problems

Developmental Science

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 537-552

  Prado, Jérôme ^a,b   Mutreja, Rachna ^a   Booth, James R ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; NERVE CELL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME;

BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PARIETAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84904732418     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/desc.12140     Document Type: Article

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