Are imaging and lesioning convergent methods for assessing functional specialisation? Investigations using an artificial neural network

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 38-49

  Thomas, Michael S C ^a   Purser, Harry R M ^a,b   Tomlinson, Simon ^a   Mareschal, Denis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computational modelling; Connectionism; Functional specialisation; Language; Neural network; Neuroimaging; Neuropsychology; Past tense; Synthetic brain imaging

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MENTAL TASK; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPATIAL SUMMATION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL SUMMATION;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEUROIMAGING; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS;

EID: 82455199117     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2011.10.003     Document Type: Article

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