Involvement of the cerebellum in semantic discrimination: An fMRI study

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 208-214

  Xiang, Huadong ^a   Lin, Chongyu ^a   Ma, Xiaohai ^b   Zhang, Zhaoqi ^b   Bower, James M ^c   Weng, Xuchu ^a   Gao, Jia Hong ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; fMRI; Language; MRI; Semantic discrimination

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; CHINESE; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INSULA; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRECUNEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WERNICKE AREA;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0037342344     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.10095     Document Type: Article

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