Brain Signatures of Meaning Access in Action Word Recognition
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
fMRI Evidence for Dual Routes to the Mental Lexicon in Visual Word Recognition
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Differential Contributions of the Left and Right Inferior Parietal Lobules to Number Processing
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Where the mass counts: Common cortical activation for different kinds of nonsingularity
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Critical time course of right frontoparietal involvement in mental number space
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
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Developmental and cross-cultural studies show that finger counting represents one of the basic number learning strategies. However, despite the ubiquity of such an embodied strategy, the issue of whether there is a neural link between numbers and fingers in adult, literate individuals remains debated. Here, we used transcranial magnetic stimulation to study changes of excitability of hand muscles of individuals performing a visual parity judgment task, a task not requiring counting, on Arabic numerals from 1 to 9. Although no modulation was observed for the left hand muscles, an increase in amplitude of motor-evoked potentials was found for the right hand muscles. This increase was specific for smaller numbers (1 to 4) as compared to larger numbers (6 to 9). These findings indicate a close relationship between hand/finger and numerical representations.