The role of the prefrontal cortex in sentence comprehension: An rTMS study

Cortex

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 337-344

  Manenti, Rosa ^a,b   Cappa, Stefano F ^b   Rossini, Paolo M ^a   Miniussi, Carlo ^a,c  

^a IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

^b SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

DLPFC; Magnetic stimulation; Memory resources; Semantics; Syntax; TMS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETIC STIMULATION; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; LEARNING; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; COMPREHENSION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 43549103355     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2006.06.006     Document Type: Article

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