Body-part-specific representations of semantic noun categories

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1492-1509

  Carota, Francesca ^a   Moseley, Rachel ^a   Pulvermüller, Friedemann ^a,b  

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

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTICS; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMAN BODY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; SEMANTICS; WORD ASSOCIATION TESTS;

EID: 84860362311     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00219     Document Type: Article

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