Noun and verb retrieval by normal subjects: Studies with PET

Brain

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 159-179

  Warburton, Elizabeth ^a,b   Wise, Richard J S ^a,f   Price, Cathy J ^a   Weiller, Cornelius ^c   Hadar, Uri ^d   Ramsay, Stuart ^e   Frackowiak, Richard S J ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e Ashley Centre   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Nouns; PET; Verbs; Word retrieval

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0030009417     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/119.1.159     Document Type: Article

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