Why is that hammer in my coffee? A multimodal imaging investigation of contextually based tool understanding

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Mizelle, J C ^a   Wheaton, Lewis A ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conceptual tool use; EEG; FMRI; Insula; Temporal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TOOL USE;

EID: 79952998074     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2010.00233     Document Type: Article

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