The amodal system for conscious word and picture identification in the absence of a semantic task

NeuroImage

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 3295-3307

  Van Doren, Leen ^a   Dupont, Patrick ^a   De Grauwe, Sophie ^a   Peeters, Ronald ^b   Vandenberghe, Rik ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Amodal; fMRI; Naming; Reading; Semantic; Short term memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RECALL; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUBICULUM; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONSCIOUSNESS; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 73749086027     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.12.005     Document Type: Article

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