The neural substrate of naming events: Effects of processing demands but not of grammatical class

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 171-177

  Siri, Simona ^a   Tettamanti, Marco ^a   Cappa, Stefano F ^a   Rosa, Pasquale Della ^a   Saccuman, Cristina ^a   Scifo, Paola ^a   Vigliocco, Gabriella ^b  

^a VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Broca area; fMRI; Grammatical class; Left IFG; Overt picture naming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SOUND LEVEL MEASUREMENT;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 36848999831     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhm043     Document Type: Article

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