Differential contributions of bilateral ventral anterior temporal lobe and left anterior superior temporal gyrus to semantic processes

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3121-3131

  Visser, M ^a   Lambon Ralph, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SOUND; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL LOBE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEMANTICS; SOUND; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84860390292     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00007     Document Type: Article

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