Context-dependent interpretation of words: Evidence for interactive neural processes

NeuroImage

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1278-1286

  Gennari, Silvia P ^a   MacDonald, Maryellen C ^b   Postle, Bradley R ^b   Seidenberg, Mark S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTEXT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TEMPORAL CORTEX; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; READING; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33947718014     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.01.015     Document Type: Article

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