Neural correlates of abstract verb processing

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 106-118

  Rodríguez Ferreiro, Javier ^a   Gennari, Silvia P ^b   Davies, Robert ^c   Cuetos, Fernando ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMOTION; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649476092     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21414     Document Type: Article

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