Traces of vocabulary acquisition in the brain: Evidence from covert object naming

NeuroImage

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 958-968

  Ellis, A W ^a   Burani, C ^b   Izura, C ^c   Bromiley, A ^d   Venneri, A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

^c SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age of acquisition; fMRI; Object naming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 33750080471     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.07.040     Document Type: Article

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