The neural correlates of verb and noun processing a PET study

Brain

Volumn 122, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 2337-2344

  Perani, Daniela ^a,c   Cappa, Stefano F ^d   Schnur, Tatiana ^a   Tettamanti, Marco ^a   Collina, Simona ^a   Rosa, Màrio Miguel ^b   Fazio, Ferruccio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b HOSPITAL DE SANTA MARIA   (Portugal)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Grammatical categories; Lexical decision; Nouns; PET; Reading; Verbs

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0032703443     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/122.12.2337     Document Type: Article

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