Neural pathways involved in the processing of concrete and abstract words

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 225-233

  Kiehl, Kent A ^a   Liddle, Peter F ^a   Smith, Andra M ^a   Mendrek, Adrianna ^a   Forster, Bruce B ^a   Hare, Robert D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abstract words; Concrete words; fMRI; Lexical decision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CINGULATE GYRUS; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NERVE TRACT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SPINDLE CELL; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0032971257     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0193(1999)7:4<225::AID-HBM1>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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