The concreteness effect: Evidence for dual coding and context availability

Brain and Language

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 103-112

  Jessen, F ^a   Heun, R ^a   Erb, M ^b   Granath, D O ^a   Klose, U ^b   Papassotiropoulos, A ^a   Grodd, W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Concreteness; Frontal cortex; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Parietal cortex; Precuneus; Verbal encoding

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; VERBALIZATION;

EID: 0033852096     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/brln.2000.2340     Document Type: Article

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