The neural organization of semantic control: TMS evidence for a distributed network in left inferior frontal and posterior middle temporal gyrus

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1066-1075

  Whitney, Carin ^a   Kirk, Marie ^a   O'Sullivan, Jamie ^a   Lambon Ralph, Matthew A ^b   Jefferies, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

executive functions; prefrontal cortex; semantic decisions; temporal cortex; transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEFT INFERIOR FRONTAL TEMPORAL GYRUS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTERIOR MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL GYRUS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; NERVE NET; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79954618958     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhq180     Document Type: Article

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