The influence of multiple primes on bottom-up and top-down regulation during meaning retrieval: Evidence for 2 distinct neural networks

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2548-2560

  Whitney, Carin ^a   Grossman, Murray ^b   Kircher, Tilo T J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angular gyrus; FMRI; Inferior frontal cortex; Selection; Semantic priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UPREGULATION;

ADULT; COMPREHENSION; CUES; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; NERVE NET; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SEMANTICS;

EID: 70349907741     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhp007     Document Type: Article

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