The cerebellum and its role in word generation: A cTBS study

Cortex

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 718-724

  Arasanz, Carla P ^a   Staines, W Richard ^a   Roy, Eric A ^a   Schweizer, Tom A ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Executive Function; Fluency; Trascranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS); Word generation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PHONEMIC FLUENCY; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; WORD GENERATION;

EID: 84860387116     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2011.02.021     Document Type: Article

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