Distributed cell assemblies for general lexical and category-specific semantic processing as revealed by fMRI cluster analysis

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3837-3850

  Pulvermüller, Friedemann ^a   Kherif, Ferath ^a   Hauk, Olaf ^a   Mohr, Bettina ^a   Nimmo Smith, Ian ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Action perception cycle; Category specific activation; Cell assembly; Concept; K means clustering; Language; Neuroscience; Semantics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COGNITION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEMANTICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 72549097709     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20811     Document Type: Article

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