Role of frontal versus temporal cortex in verbal fluency as revealed by voxel-based lesion symptom mapping

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 896-900

  Baldo, Juliana V ^a,e   SChwartz, Sophie ^b   Wilkins, David ^a   Dronkers, Nina F ^a,c,d  

^a VA NORTHERN CALIFORNIA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Category fluency; Fluency; Frontal cortex; Letter fluency; Lexical retrieval; Semantic retrieval; Temporal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WORD RECOGNITION; FRONTAL LOBE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33947195230     PISSN: 13556177     EISSN: 14697661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355617706061078     Document Type: Article

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