Two systems of non-symbolic numerical cognition

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue NOVEMBER, 2011, Pages

  Hyde, Daniel C ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Cognition; ERP; FMRI; Memory; Number; Representation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; LOW RESOLUTION BRAIN ELECTROMAGNETIC TOMOGRAPHY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSCIENCE; NUMERICAL COGNITION; NUMERICAL PROCESSING; PARIETAL LOBE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TEMPOROPARIETAL JUNCTION;

EID: 84933678089     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2011.00150     Document Type: Article

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