Rostrolateral prefrontal cortex: Domain-general or domain-sensitive

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1952-1963

  Wendelken, Carter ^a   Chung, David ^a   Bunge, Silvia A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstraction; APFC; BA 10; Domain sensitivity; FMRI; Functional connectivity; Relational reasoning; Representation; Semantic; Visuospatial

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; NERVE CELL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROSTROLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEMANTICS; VISION;

BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEMANTICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84863862473     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21336     Document Type: Article

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