Drawing connections between white matter and numerical and mathematical cognition: A literature review

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 48, Issue , 2015, Pages 35-52

  Matejko, Anna A ^a   Ansari, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arithmetic; Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI); Mathematical cognition; Numerical cognition; Review; White matter

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CORONA RADIATA (BRAIN); CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFERIOR LONGITUDINAL FASCICULUS; MATHEMATICAL COGNITION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE TRACT; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NUMERICAL COGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; REVIEW; SUPERIOR LONGITUDINAL FASCICULUS; WHITE MATTER; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; THINKING;

BRAIN; COGNITION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; THINKING; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84913557839     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2014.11.006     Document Type: Review

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