title: Cognitive neuroscience: acting on numbers.
abstract: The parietal cortex is a central part of the brain's system for representing numbers and magnitudes. Activity in the parietal cortex might reflect number representation or actions made in response to the numbers.
authors.affiliation: Department of Experimental Psychology, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3UD, UK. silke.goebel@psy.ox.ac.uk
authors.forename: Silke M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Göbel
authors.forename: Matthew F S
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Rushworth
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D008433:Mathematics; D010296:Parietal Lobe / Q000502:physiology*; D010465:Perception / Q000502:physiology*