A neurosemantic theory of concrete noun representation based on the underlying brain codes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Just, Marcel Adam ^a   Cherkassky, Vladimir L ^a   Aryal, Sandesh ^a   Mitchell, Tom M ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; BRAIN; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SEMANTICS;

MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 77649256873     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008622     Document Type: Article

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