Neural correlates of semantic and morphological processing of Hebrew nouns and verbs

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 303-314

  Palti, Dafna ^a,b   Shachar, Michal Ben ^c   Hendler, Talma ^a,b   Hadar, Uri ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

fMRI; Hebrew; Language processing; Neurolinguistics; Nouns; Verbs

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; ISRAEL; LANGUAGE; LEFT ANTERIOR INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LEFT DORSAL PREMOTOR AREA; LEFT POSTERIOR MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; LEFT SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTERIOR INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 34047218666     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20280     Document Type: Article

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