Discrimination of Exner's area and the frontal eye field in humans - Functional magnetic resonance imaging during language and saccade tasks

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 340, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 13-16

  Matsuo, Kayako ^a,b   Kato, Chikako ^a,c   Sumiyoshi, Chika ^d   Toma, Keiichiro ^b,e   Duy Thuy, Dinh Ha ^e   Moriya, Tetsuo ^a   Fukuyama, Hidenao ^e   Nakai, Toshiharu ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND INNOVATION   (Japan)

^c TOYOHASHI SOZO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d FUKUSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Exner's area; Frontal eye field; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Grapheme; Phoneme; Saccade

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 0037417174     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(03)00050-8     Document Type: Article

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