Thesis
Number representation in the parietal lobes
- Abstract:
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This thesis considers the importance of the inferior parietal lobe for calculation and Arabic number comparison. The first experiment demonstrates that repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) can be used on normal subjects to replicate findings from studies of patients whose ability to calculate after brain injury was impaired. While subjects were solving addition tasks, rTMS was applied over anterior and posterior areas of the inferior parietal lobule and the adjoining intrap...
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Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2002
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Subjects:
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- td:603838339
- Source identifiers:
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603838339
- Deposit date:
- 2015-02-04
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- Copyright holder:
- Göbel, Silke M.
- Copyright date:
- 2002
- Notes:
- This thesis was digitised thanks to the generosity of Dr Leonard Polonsky
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