The role of semantics and grammatical class in the neural representation of words

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1790-1796

  Vigliocco, Gabriella ^a   Warren, Jane ^b,c   Siri, Simona ^d   Arciuli, Joanne ^a   Scott, Sophie ^e   Wise, Richard ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Grammatical class; Language; PET; Semantics; Word processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GRAMMAR; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33646033655     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhj115     Document Type: Article

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