Functional magnetic resonance imaging of category-specific cortical activation: Evidence for semantic maps

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 309-319

  Spitzer, Manfred ^a   Kischka, Udo ^b   Gückel, Friedemann ^c   Bellemann, Matthias E ^d   Kammer, Thomas ^e   Seyyedi, Soraya ^a   Weisbrod, Matthias ^a   Schwartz, Andreas ^f   Brix, Gunnar ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

^b Rehaklinik Rheinfelden   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cortical activation; Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); Psycholinguistics; Semantic map

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AROUSAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0031806934     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(97)00020-7     Document Type: Article

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