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Distributed and Overlapping Cerebral Representations of Number, Size, and Luminance during Comparative Judgments (2004)
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| Citations: | 82 - 8 self |
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@ARTICLE{Pinel04distributedand,
author = {Philippe Pinel and Manuela Piazza and Denis Le Bihan and Stanislas Dehaene and Service Hospitalier and Frédéric Joliot},
title = {Distributed and Overlapping Cerebral Representations of Number, Size, and Luminance during Comparative Judgments},
journal = {Neuron},
year = {2004},
volume = {41},
pages = {983--993}
}
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Abstract
IPS) as playing a special role overlap in the neural substrates of the three compari- in the internal representation of numerical quantities son tasks. Interestingly, the amount of overlap pre- (Dehaene et al., 2003). dicted the amount of cross-dimensional interference: However, it seems unlikely that the many continuous in both behavior and fMRI, number interfered with size, dimensions that we can compare each have a dedicated and size with luminance, but number did not interfere cortical territory. Therefore, another possibility is that with luminance. The results suggest that during com- the intraparietal region is partially involved in generic parative judgments, the relevant continuous quantities processes of comparison and internal transformation are represented in distributed and overlapping neural of quantitative information that can operate on many populations, with number and size engaging a com- different dimensions. Comparative judgements would mon parietal spatial cod
Keyphrases
comparative judgment overlapping cerebral representation cross-dimensional interference com different dimension parietal spatial cod neural substrate relevant continuous quantity process intraparietal region cortical territory internal transformation special role overlap internal representation numerical quantity son task quantitative information many population overlap pre generic parative judgment comparative judgement
