The interaction of lexical semantics and cohort competition in spoken word recognition: An fMRI study

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3778-3790

  Zhuang, Jie ^a   Randall, Billi ^a   Stamatakis, Emmanuel A ^a   Marslen Wilson, William D ^a,b   Tyler, Lorraine K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGULAR GYRUS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COHORT COMPETITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGERY; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LEXICAL SEMANTICS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSCIENCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; POSTERIOR MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPOKEN WORD RECOGNITION; TEMPORAL GYRUS; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80055116500     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00046     Document Type: Article

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