Graspable objects shape number processing

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue DECEMBER, 2011, Pages

  Ranzini, Mariagrazia ^a,b   Lugli, Luisa ^a   Anelli, Filomena ^a   Carbone, Rossella ^a   Nicoletti, Roberto ^a   Borghi, Anna M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Action; Affordance; Number; Object

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRIP STRENGTH; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT MANIPULATION; OBJECT RELATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84933674295     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2011.00147     Document Type: Article

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