Processing concrete words: fMRI evidence against a specific right-hemisphere involvement

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 62-70

  Fiebach, Christian J ^a   Friederici, Angela D ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abstract; Brain; Concrete; Context availability model; Dual coding theory; fMRI; Inferior frontal gyrus; Visual association cortex; Visual word processing; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOOK; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0348134957     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(03)00145-3     Document Type: Article

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