Qualitatively different coding of symbolic and nonsymbolic numbers in the human brain

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 475-488

  Lyons, Ian M ^a   Ansari, Daniel ^a   Beilock, Sian L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Approximate number system; Neural coding; Number representation; Representational similarity analysis; Symbolic representation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; CODING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRADUATE STUDENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84922243247     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22641     Document Type: Article

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