Functional neuroanatomy of meaning acquisition from context

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2153-2166

  Mestres Missé, Anna ^a   Càmara, Estela ^a,b   Rodriguez Fornells, Antoni ^a,c   Rotte, Michael ^b,d   Münte, Thomas F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^d NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBICULUM; THALAMUS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 56649096024     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2008.20150     Document Type: Article

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