Category differences in brain activation studies: Where do they come from?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1449, 2000, Pages 1253-1258

  Gorno Tempini, Maria Luisa ^a,b   Cipolotti, Lisa ^c   Price, Cathy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Ist di Ricovero e C a C S S L   (Italy)

^c NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Category differences; Naming; Neural processing; Object processing; Reading; Visual complexity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE TRACT; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTICS; STRIATE CORTEX; SUBICULUM; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0034702251     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1135     Document Type: Article

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