Heterogeneity of the left temporal lobe in semantic representation and control: Priming multiple versus single meanings of ambiguous words

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 831-844

  Whitney, Carin ^a   Jefferies, Elizabeth ^a   Kircher, Tilo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

ambiguity; inferior frontal gyrus; semantic memory; semantic priming; temporal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEMANTIC REPRESENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 79952854234     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhq148     Document Type: Article

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