The neural representation of concrete nouns: What's right and what's left?

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 151-153

  Scott, Sophie K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; NEUROLOGY;

NOUN PROCESSING; TEMPORAL LOBE;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

AUDITORY SYSTEM; BRAIN CORTEX; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REVIEW; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 1842472310     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2004.02.003     Document Type: Short Survey

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