The organization and dissolution of semantic-conceptual knowledge: Is the 'amodal hub' the only plausible model?

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 299-309

  Gainotti, Guido ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE POLICLINICO UNIVERSITARIO A GEMELLI IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Action schemata; Conceptual representations; Higher order convergence zones; Semantic categories; Visual data

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL INFORMATION;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; SEMANTICS;

EID: 79952037109     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2010.12.001     Document Type: Article

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