Noun imageability and the temporal lobes

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 985-994

  Wise, R J S ^a   Howard, D ^b   Mummery, C J ^c   Fletcher, P ^c   Leff, A ^a   Buchel C ^c   Scott, S K ^d  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Imageability; PET; Temporal cortex

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN 15;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; READING; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SENSORY SYSTEM; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 0034074605     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(99)00152-9     Document Type: Article

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