How different types of conceptual relations modulate brain activation during semantic priming

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1263-1273

  Sachs, Olga ^a,b   Weis, Susanne ^a   Zellagui, Nadia ^a,b   Sass, Katharina ^a,b   Huber, Walter ^a   Zvyagintsev, Mikhail ^a,b   Mathiak, Klaus ^a,b   Kircher, Tilo ^c  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b JARA Translational Brain Medicine   (Germany)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CLASSIFICATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CUES; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79551660127     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21483     Document Type: Article

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