Neural substrates of semantic memory

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 865-880

  Hart Jr , John ^a,b   Ananda, Raksha ^a   Zoccoli, Sandra ^c   Maguire, Mandy ^a   Gamino, Jacque ^a   Tillman, Gail ^a   King, Richard ^a,b   Kraut, Michael A ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Conceptual; Functional MRI; Lexical semantic; Meaning; Memory; Semantic

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PATHOGENESIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 34548129165     PISSN: 13556177     EISSN: 14697661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S135561770707110X     Document Type: Review

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