Rapid and Direct Encoding of Numerosity in the Visual Stream

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 748-763

  Park, Joonkoo ^a,b   Dewind, Nicholas K ^b,c   Woldorff, Marty G ^b,c,d   Brannon, Elizabeth M ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b Center for Cognitive Neuroscience   (United States)

^c Department of Neurobiology ^*  (Netherlands)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Event related potential; Numerical cognition; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MIDDLE OCCIPITAL GYRUS; NUMEROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL EVOKED POTENTIAL; VISUAL SYSTEM; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84960324568     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhv017     Document Type: Article

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