Conceptual knowledge in the brain: fMRI evidence for a featural organization

Brain Research

Volumn 1194, Issue , 2008, Pages 90-99

  Marques, J Frederico ^a   Canessa, Nicola ^b   Siri, Simona ^b   Catricalà, Eleonora ^b   Cappa, Stefano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Conceptual knowledge; Domain; Features; fMRI; Semantic memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY; VISION; BLOOD; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONCEPT FORMATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION;

OXYGEN;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KNOWLEDGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 39149129640     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.11.070     Document Type: Article

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