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Article: Number forms in the brain

TitleNumber forms in the brain
Authors
Issue Date2008
PublisherMIT Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://mitpress.mit.edu/jocn
Citation
Journal Of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2008, v. 20 n. 9, p. 1547-1556 How to Cite?
AbstractMental images of number lines, Galton's "number forms" (NF), are a useful way of investigating the relation between number and space. Here we report the first neuroimaging study of number-form synesthesia, investigating 10 synesthetes with NFs going from left to right compared with matched controls. Neuroimaging with functional magnetic resonance imaging revealed no difference in brain activation during a task focused on number magnitude but, in a comparable task on number order, synesthetes showed additional activations in the left and right posterior intraparietal sulci, suggesting that NFs are essentially ordinal in nature. Our results suggest that there are separate but partially overlapping neural circuits for the processing of ordinal and cardinal numbers, irrespective of the presence of an NF, but a core region in the anterior intraparietal sulcus representing (cardinal) number meaning appears to be activated autonomously, irrespective of task. This article provides an important extension beyond previous studies that have focused on word-color or grapheme-color synesthesia. © 2008 Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/60770
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2023 Impact Factor: 3.1
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.402
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Funding AgencyGrant Number
Leverhulme Trust
Functional Imaging Laboratory (UCL)
Funding Information:

This research was supported by a grant from the Leverhulme Trust to J. W. and B. B. We thank Professor Chris Frith of the Functional Imaging Laboratory (UCL) for supporting this research, and Professor Tetsuro Matsuzawa of the Primate Research Institute (Kyoto University) for suggesting the idea of an ordinal Stroop task. J. T. designed the experiments, tested participants, and analyzed data. B. B. and J. W. contributed to design and interpretation, and J. W. maintains a database of synesthetes from which participants were drawn.

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