Lateral inferotemporal cortex maintains conceptual-semantic representations in verbal working memory

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2035-2049

  Fiebach, Christian J ^a,b   Friederici, Angela D ^b   Smith, Edward E ^c   Swinney, David ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 36849074230     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2007.19.12.2035     Document Type: Article

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