Coherent concepts are computed in the anterior temporal lobes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2717-2722

  Lambon Ralph, Matthew A ^a   Sage, Karen ^a   Jones, Roy W ^b   Mayberry, Emily J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Research Institute for the Care of Older People   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conceptual knowledge; Semantic dementia; Semantic memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; HUMAN; NEOCORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

BRAIN MAPPING; COLOR PERCEPTION; FRONTOTEMPORAL LOBAR DEGENERATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77249137228     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0907307107     Document Type: Article

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