Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 3 , Pages 351-362 , April 2010

An fMRI study of magnitude comparison and exact addition in children

  • Ernesta M. Meintjes

      Affiliations

    • Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town 7925, South Africa
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +27 21 406 6547; fax: +27 21 448 7226.
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  • Sandra W. Jacobson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town 7925, South Africa
    • Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA
    • Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town 7925, South Africa
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  • Christopher D. Molteno

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town 7925, South Africa
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  • J. Christopher Gatenby

      Affiliations

    • Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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  • Christopher Warton

      Affiliations

    • Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town 7925, South Africa
    • ,
  • Christopher J. Cannistraci

      Affiliations

    • Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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  • John C. Gore

      Affiliations

    • Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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  • Joseph L. Jacobson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town 7925, South Africa
    • Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA
    • Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town 7925, South Africa

Received 14 July 2009 ,Revised 28 October 2009 ,Accepted 27 November 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2009.11.010

Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 3 , Pages 351-362 , April 2010

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