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SUBMITTER: Cohen Kadosh R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2923212 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cohen Kadosh Roi R Muggleton Neil N Silvanto Juha J Walsh Vincent V
Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 20100105 9
Based on neuroimaging methods, it is a commonly held view that numerical representation in the human parietal lobes is format independent. We used a transcranial magnetic stimulation adaptation paradigm to examine the existence of functionally segregated overlapping populations of neurons for different numerical formats and to reveal how numerical information is encoded and represented. Based on 2 experiments, we found that right parietal lobe stimulation showed a dissociation between digits and ...[more]