Asymmetric processing of numerical and nonnumerical magnitudes in the brain: An fmri study

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 166-176

  Leibovich, Tali ^a,b   Vogel, Stephan E ^b,c   Henik, Avishai ^a   Ansari, Daniel ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN LEVEL; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; VASCULARIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

OXYGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84948845300     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00887     Document Type: Article

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