The neural substrate for concrete, abstract, and emotional word lexica: A positron emission tomography study

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 441-461

  Beauregard, Mario ^a   Chertkow, H ^b   Bub, D ^c   Murtha, S ^b   Dixon, R ^d   Evans, A ^e  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHE   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN 15;

ADULT; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBELLUM; CINGULATE GYRUS; EMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0030839672     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.1997.9.4.441     Document Type: Article

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