Beyond natural numbers: Representation of negative number representation in parietal cortex

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JANUARY 2012, 2012, Pages

  Blair, Kristen P ^a   Rosenberg Lee, Miriam ^b   Tsang, Jessica M ^a   Schwartz, Daniel L ^a,c   Menon, Vinod ^b,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences ^*  (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distance effect; Integers; Intraparietal sulcus; Negative numbers; Number cognition; Prefrontal cortex; Representational similarity; Symbolic number comparisons

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR OCCIPITAL CORTEX; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; LINGUAL GYRUS; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NEGATIVE NUMBER REPRESENTATION; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; POSITIVE NUMBER REPRESENTATION; PRE SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; PREMOTOR CORTEX; REACTION TIME; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; TEMPORAL OCCIPITAL FUSIFORM CORTEX;

EID: 84933670578     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00007     Document Type: Article

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