The causal role of category-specific neuronal representations in the left ventral premotor cortex (PMv) in semantic processing

NeuroImage

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 2728-2734

  Cattaneo, Zaira ^a   Devlin, Joseph T ^b   Salvini, Francesca ^c   Vecchi, Tomaso ^c   Silvanto, Juha ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Category specificity; Priming; State dependent; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Ventral premotor cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTICS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURONS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 71849085741     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.10.048     Document Type: Article

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