Modulation of Parietal Activation by Semantic Distance in a Number Comparison Task

@article{Pinel2001ModulationOP,  title={Modulation of Parietal Activation by Semantic Distance in a Number Comparison Task},  author={Philippe Pinel and Stanislas Dehaene and Denis Rivi{\`e}re and Denis LeBihan},  journal={NeuroImage},  year={2001},  volume={14},  pages={1013-1026},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:17633857}}
The time to compare two numbers shows additive effects of number notation and of semantic distance, suggesting that the comparison task can be decomposed into distinct stages of identification and…

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