Nonverbal sound processing in semantic dementia: A functional MRI study

NeuroImage

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 170-180

  Goll, Johanna C ^a   Ridgway, Gerard R ^a   Crutch, Sebastian J ^a   Theunissen, Frederic E ^b   Warren, Jason D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory object; Auditory perception; Dementia; FMRI; Semantic dementia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONVERBAL SOUND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; SEMANTICS; SOUND; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGED; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL LOBAR DEGENERATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84859077726     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.02.045     Document Type: Article

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