Idiom comprehension: A prefrontal task?

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 162-170

  Lauro, Leonor J Romero ^a   Tettamanti, Marco ^b   Cappa, Stefano F ^b   Papagno, Costanza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anterior prefrontal cortex; Idiom comprehension; RH hypothesis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; READING; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 36849034935     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhm042     Document Type: Article

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