Automatic processing of semantic relations in fMRI: Neural activation during semantic priming of taxonomic and thematic categories

Brain Research

Volumn 1218, Issue , 2008, Pages 194-205

  Sachs, Olga ^a   Weis, Susanne ^b   Zellagui, Nadia ^a   Huber, Walter ^b   Zvyagintsev, Mikhail ^a   Mathiak, Klaus ^a   Kircher, Tilo ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Categorization; fMRI; Semantic priming; Taxonomic; Thematic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DECISION MAKING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; TAXONOMY; THEMATIC ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AUTOMATISM; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONCEPT FORMATION; CUES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 46349092767     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.03.045     Document Type: Article

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