Micro and macro pattern analyses of fMRI data support both early and late interaction of numerical and spatial information

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue OCTOBER, 2011, Pages

  Koten Jr, Jan Willem ^a   Lonnemann, Jan ^a,b,c   Willmes, Klaus ^a   Knops, André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Center for Individual Development and Adaptive Education of Children at Risk   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Early interaction; Interaction between number and space; Late interaction; Multi voxel pattern analysis; Numerical landmark task

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MULTI VOXEL PATTERN ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL INFORMATION;

EID: 84933678481     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2011.00115     Document Type: Article

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