Brain activation during semantic judgment of Chinese sentences: A functional MRI study

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 305-312

  Mo, Lei ^a   Liu, Ho Ling ^b,c   Jin, Hua ^a   Yang, Ya Ling ^d  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain activation; Category; Chinese sentence; fMRI; Semantic retrieval

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CHINESE; DECISION MAKING; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LANGUAGE; MALE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 16344394058     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20091     Document Type: Article

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