Architecture and organizational principles of Broca's region

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 418-426

  Amunts, Katrin ^a,b,c   Zilles, Karl ^a,b,d  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b Section JARA FIT   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSICAL SCHEMES; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCES; CORTICAL AREAS; CYTOARCHITECTURE; ESSENTIAL NODE; FUNCTIONAL ARCHITECTURE; LANGUAGE NETWORKS; MICROSTRUCTURAL GRADATION; ORGANIZATIONAL PRINCIPLES; RECEPTOR DISTRIBUTION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

NEUROTRANSMITTER RECEPTOR;

BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; HUMAN; INSULA; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROANATOMY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84864060497     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2012.06.005     Document Type: Review

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