Choosing our words: Retrieval and selection processes recruit shared neural substrates in left ventrolateral prefrontal cortex

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3470-3482

  Snyder, Hannah R ^a   Banich, Marie T ^a   Munakata, Yuko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE PROJECTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VENTROLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; WORD SELECTION;

ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEMANTICS; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 80053544664     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00023     Document Type: Article

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