Syllable congruency and word frequency effects on brain activation

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3079-3088

  Carreiras, Manuel ^a,b   Riba, Jordi ^c,d   Vergara, Marta ^b   Heldmann, Marcus ^d   Münte, Thomas F ^d  

^a BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

^d OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Lexical processes; Sublexical processes; Syllable; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COLOR VISION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; THALAMUS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69249116977     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20730     Document Type: Article

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