Mediotemporal contributions to semantic processing: fMRI evidence from ambiguity processing during semantic context verification

Hippocampus

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 597-609

  Hoenig, Klaus ^a   Scheef, Lukas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Associative memory; Language neuroimaging; Semantic ambiguity; Semantic memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; SUBICULUM; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; COGNITION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 23844505234     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20080     Document Type: Review

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