Semantic adaptation and competition during word comprehension

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2574-2585

  Bedny, Marina ^a,b,d   McGill, Megan ^c   Thompson Schill, Sharon L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Executive function; Homonym; Prefrontal; Word comprehension

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; CEREBELLUM; COGNITION; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 54149111372     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhn018     Document Type: Article

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