Conceptual flexibility in the human brain: Dynamic recruitment of semantic maps from visual, motor, and motion-related areas

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1799-1814

  Hoenig, Klaus ^a,b   Sim, Eun Jin ^a   Bochev, Viktor ^a,b   Herrnberger, Bärbel ^a   Kiefer, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b Transfer Center for Neurosciences and Learning   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MODULATION; MOTION; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL BALANCE; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEMANTICS; SENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; SEMANTICS;

EID: 55049112096     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2008.20123     Document Type: Article

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