Semantics vs. world knowledge in prefrontal cortex

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1313-1334

  Pylkkänen, Liina ^a   Oliveri, Bridget ^a   Smart, Andrew J ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior midline field; Left inferior prefrontal cortex; Magnetoencephalography; Semantic processing; Ventromedial prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE; LEFT INFERIOR PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 74949085896     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690960903120176     Document Type: Article

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