First-pass selectivity for semantic categories in human anteroventral temporal lobe

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 49, 2011, Pages 18119-18129

  Chan, Alexander M ^a,b   Baker, Janet M ^c   Eskandar, Emad ^b   Schomer, Donald ^d   Ulbert, Istvan ^e,f   Marinkovic, Ksenija ^g   Cash, Sydney S ^b   Halgren, Eric ^f  

^a HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLOGY   (Hungary)

^f PÁZMÁNY PÉTER CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INFERIOR TEMPORAL CORTEX; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; PERIRHINAL CORTEX; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICROELECTRODES; MIDDLE AGED; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83055171570     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3122-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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