Left frontal activation during a semantic categorization task: An fMRI-study

International Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 99, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 49-58

  Hugdahl, Kenneth ^a   Lundervold, Arvid ^a   Ersland, Lars ^b   Smievoll, Alf Inge ^b   Sundberg, Håkan ^a   Barndon, Roger ^b   Roscher, Bjarne Erik ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c AACHEN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Frontal lobes; Functional MRI; Mental lexicon; Semantic categorization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033180156     PISSN: 00207454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00207459908994312     Document Type: Article

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