The neural basis for categorization in semantic memory

NeuroImage

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1549-1561

  Grossman, Murray ^a   Smith, Edward E ^b   Koenig, Phyllis ^a   Glosser, Guila ^a   DeVita, Chris ^a   Moore, Peachie ^a   McMillan, Corey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; THALAMUS; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0036432173     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nimg.2002.1273     Document Type: Article

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