The Relation between Finger Gnosis and Mathematical Ability: Can we Attribute Function to Cortical Structure with Cross-Domain Modeling?

Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2445-2450

  Penner Wilger, Marcie ^a   Anderson, Michael L ^b  

^a FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

cross domain modeling; exaptation; finger representation; function structure mapping; localization; neural substrate; number representation

Indexed keywords

ATTRIBUTE FUNCTIONS; COGNITIVE DOMAIN; CORTICAL STRUCTURES; CROSS-DOMAIN MODELLING; EXAPTATION; FINGER REPRESENTATION; FUNCTION STRUCTURE MAPPING; LOCALISATION; NEURAL SUBSTRATES; NUMBER REPRESENTATION;

FUNCTIONS;

EID: 85052334282     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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