The role of the left inferior frontal gyrus in implicit semantic competition and selection: An event-related fMRI study

Brain Research

Volumn 1229, Issue , 2008, Pages 167-178

  Grindrod, Christopher M ^a   Bilenko, Natalia Y ^b   Myers, Emily B ^b   Blumstein, Sheila E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

fMRI; Left inferior frontal gyrus; Left superior temporal gyrus; Semantic ambiguity; Semantic competition; Semantic selection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL METHOD; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS;

MENTHA;

EID: 49849094385     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.07.017     Document Type: Article

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