Selective retrieval of abstract semantic knowledge in left prefrontal cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 3790-3798

  Goldberg, Robert F ^a,c   Perfetti, Charles A ^b   Fiez, Julie A ^b   Schneider, Walter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c Center for Cognitive Therapy   (United States)

Author keywords

Concept; Decision; Declarative; fMRI; Language; Memory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SENSORY CORTEX; SENSORY STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS;

EID: 34147122548     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2381-06.2007     Document Type: Article

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