The anterior temporal lobe semantic hub is a part of the language neural network: Selective disruption of irregular past tense verbs by rTMS

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2771-2775

  Holland, Rachel ^a,b   Lambon Ralph, Matthew A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

anterior temporal lobe; language; semantic memory; TMS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACTORIAL DESIGN; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; REPETITIVE TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; NERVE NET; SPEECH; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 78349280734     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhq020     Document Type: Article

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