Executive semantic processing is underpinned by a large-scale neural network: Revealing the contribution of left prefrontal, posterior temporal, and parietal cortex to controlled retrieval and selection using TMS

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 133-147

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; FRONTAL GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

CUES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE NET; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 81455148246     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00123     Document Type: Article

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