The influence of rTMS over prefrontal and motor areas in a morphological task: Grammatical vs. semantic effects

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 764-770

  Gerfo, Emanuele Lo ^a   Oliveri, Massimiliano ^a,b   Torriero, Sara ^a   Salerno, Silvia ^a,b,c   Koch, Giacomo ^a,d   Caltagirone, Carlo ^a,d  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Action; Language; Motor cortex; Nouns; Prefrontal cortex; Semantics; TMS; Verbs

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; MOTOR CORTEX; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADULT; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 38749141361     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.10.012     Document Type: Article

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