Linguistic processing in visual and modality-nonspecific brain areas: PET recordings during selective attention

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 309-322

  Vorobyev, Victor A ^a,b,c,d   Alho, Kimmo ^d   Medvedev, Svyatoslav V ^a   Pakhomov, Sergey V ^a   Roudas, Marina S ^a   Rutkovskaya, Julia M ^a   Tervaniemi, Mari ^c,d,e   Van Zuijen, Titia L ^c,e   Näätänen, Risto ^c,d,e  

^a RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c Department of Psychology   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e Helsinki Brain Research Center   (Finland)

Author keywords

Attention; Cognition; Multimodal language areas; Neural Basis of Behavior; Neuroimaging; Positron emission tomography; Visual word form

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPEECH; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; CEREBELLUM; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; READING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 2942558580     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2004.03.011     Document Type: Article

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