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Common and specific contributions of the intraparietal sulci to numerosity and length processing

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Dormal, Valérie [UCL] Pesenti, Mauro [UCL]

Numerical and spatial magnitude processing have long been intimately associated, leading to the suggestion that they share a common system of magnitude representation. Although separate investigations on the cerebral areas involved in numerosity and spatial estimation point toward the parietal cortex, the precise anatomical overlap, if any, has not yet been directly established. Here, functional magnetic resonance imaging was used to localize the cerebral network involved in processing both numerosity and length. Blood oxygenation level-dependent signal changes were measured while healthy volunteers were making numerosity comparisons on linear arrays of dots, and length comparisons on discrete linear arrays of dots and continuous rectangles. The results show the bilateral involvement of parietal regions around the intraparietal sulci in explicit and implicit processing of numerosity, and a right lateralized occipitoparietal network activation in length processing; numerosity and length processing both activate the right IPS and the precentral gyrus. By excluding the mandatory intrinsic spatial processing of arrays, we demonstrate that the left IPS is involved in numerosity processing only, whereas the right IPS underlies a common processing mechanism or representation of spatial and numerical magnitude. Hum Brain Mapp 2009. (c) 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche – Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Access type Accès restreint
Publication date 2009
Language Anglais
Journal information "Human brain mapping" - Vol. 30, no. 8, p. 2466-76 (2009)
Peer reviewed yes
e-issn 1097-0193
issn 1065-9471
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - PSP/PSP - Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation
MESH Subject Young Adult ; Visual Perception - physiology ; Thinking - physiology ; Reaction Time ; Photic Stimulation ; Parietal Lobe - physiology ; Neuropsychological Tests ; Mathematical Concepts ; Male ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Humans ; Functional Laterality ; Color ; Brain Mapping ; Analysis of Variance
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Bibliographic reference Dormal, Valérie ; Pesenti, Mauro. Common and specific contributions of the intraparietal sulci to numerosity and length processing. In: Human brain mapping, Vol. 30, no. 8, p. 2466-76 (2009)
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