Spatial and frequency differences of neuromagnetic activities in processing concrete and abstract words

Brain Topography

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 123-129

  Liu, Yinhong ^a,b   Xiang, Jing ^a   Wang, Yingying ^a   Vannest, Jennifer J ^a   Byars, Anna W ^a   Rose, Douglas F ^a  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BEIJING HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Abstract words; Concrete words; High frequency; Low frequency; Magnetoencephalography; Synthetic aperture magnetometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SIZE; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETICS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 39149111988     PISSN: 08960267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10548-007-0038-x     Document Type: Article

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