Judging semantic similarity: An event-related fMRI study with auditory word stimuli

Neuroscience

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 279-286

  Mahon, B Z ^a,b   Caramazza, A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conceptual distance; FMRI; Multi voxel pattern analysis; Semantic memory; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WORKING MEMORY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; PARIETAL LOBE; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953810318     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2010.04.029     Document Type: Article

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