Meta-analysis: How does posterior parietal cortex contribute to reasoning?

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue JAN, 2015, Pages 1-11

  Wendelken, Carter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Deductive reasoning; IPL; Meta analysis; Numerical cognition; Posterior parietal cortex; Spatial cognition; SPL

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMAN; LEFT INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBE; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; PARIETAL LOBE; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; SENSORY SYSTEM; SPATIAL LEARNING; THINKING;

EID: 84933676472     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.01042     Document Type: Article

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