Neuroanatomical correlates of human reasoning

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 293-302

  Goel, Vinod ^a   Gold, Brian ^a   Kapur, Shitij ^b   Houle, Sylvain ^c  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN 15;

ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN FUNCTION; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MOTOR CONTROL; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; COGNITION; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031836035     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089892998562744     Document Type: Article

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