Neural systems for word meaning modulated by semantic ambiguity

NeuroImage

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1128-1133

  Chan, Alice H D ^a   Liu, Ho Ling ^b   Yip, Virginia ^c   Fox, Peter T ^d   Gao, Jia Hong ^d   Tan, Li Hai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain mapping of language; Dorsal lateral frontal cortex; fMRI; Neural systems for reading; Neuroimaging of semantic ambiguity; Neuroimaging of semantic processing; Semantic retrieval; Semantic search; Semantic selection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; READING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 3042548551     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2004.02.034     Document Type: Article

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