Sex differences in the processing of global vs. local stimulus aspects in a two-digit number comparison task--an fMRI study.

It has been debated for several decades, whether number magnitudes are processed global/holistically (whole number magnitudes) or in a local/decomposed fashion (digit magnitudes). However, while it has been suggested that men attend stronger to the global level, while women attend stronger to the lo...

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Main Authors: Belinda Pletzer, Martin Kronbichler, Hans-Christoph Nuerk, Hubert Kerschbaum
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3546005?pdf=render