Taxonomic and thematic categories: Neural correlates of categorization in an auditory-to-visual priming task using fMRI

Brain Research

Volumn 1270, Issue , 2009, Pages 78-87

  Sass, Katharina ^a,c   Sachs, Olga ^a,c   Krach, Sören ^b   Kircher, Tilo ^b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c JARA Translational Brain Medicine   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automatic processing; Lexical decision; Semantic priming; Taxonomic relation; Thematic relation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONCEPT FORMATION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349245471     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.03.013     Document Type: Article

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