Processing Words with Emotional Connotation: An fMRI Study of Time Course and Laterality in Rostral Frontal and Retrosplenial Cortices

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 167-177

  Cato, M Allison ^a,b,c   Crosson, Bruce ^a,b   Gökçay, Didem ^a   Soltysik, David ^a   Wierenga, Christina ^a   Gopinath, Kaundinya ^a   Himes, Nathan ^a   Belanger, Heather ^a   Bauer, Russell M ^a   Fischler, Ira S ^a   Gonzalez Rothi, Leslie ^a,b   Briggs, Richard W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Brain Rehabilitation Research Center   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; EMOTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CUES; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; KINETICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES;

EID: 10744219933     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089892904322984481     Document Type: Article

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