Common and contrasting areas of activation for abstract and concrete concepts: An H 2 15O PET study

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1211-1226

  Whatmough, Christine ^a   Verret, Louis ^a,c   Fung, Dion ^a   Chertkow, Howard ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN 15; WATER; OXYGEN;

AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; METABOLISM; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUE; SCINTISCANNING; VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; OXYGEN RADIOISOTOPES; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS; WATER;

EID: 4644273211     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0898929041920540     Document Type: Article

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