A neural basis for category and modality specificity of semantic knowledge

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 671-676

  Thompson Schill, S L ^a   Aguirre, G K ^a   D'Esposito, M ^a   Farah, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

FMRI; Fusiform gyrus; Imagery; Neuroimaging; Semantic memory; Visual association cortex

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INJURY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MALE; MEMORY; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; SEMANTICS; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGINATION; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033049648     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(98)00126-2     Document Type: Article

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