Neural correlates of semantic priming for ambiguous words: An event-related fMRI study

Brain Research

Volumn 1131, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 163-172

  Copland, David A ^a   de Zubicaray, Greig I ^a   McMahon, Katie ^a   Eastburn, Matt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

fMRI; Lexical ambiguity; Lexical decision; Semantic priming; Suppression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 33846002800     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.11.016     Document Type: Article

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