Variability of fMRI activation during a phonological and semantic language task in healthy subjects

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 140-155

  Seghier, Mohamed L ^a,b   Lazeyras, François ^a   Pegna, Alan J ^a   Annoni, Jean Marie ^a   Zimine, Ivan ^a   Mayer, Eugène ^a   Michel, Christoph M ^a   Khateb, Asaid ^a,c  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Left hemisphere lateralization; Rhyme detection; Semantic categorization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LANGUAGE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHONETICS; PRECENTAL GYRUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 7444258398     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20053     Document Type: Article

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