Left but not right temporal involvement in opaque idiom comprehension: A repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation study

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 848-855

  Oliveri, Massimiliano ^a   Romero, Leonor ^b   Papagno, Costanza ^b  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SCALP; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WRITING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 2542489982     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089892904970717     Document Type: Article

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