Attention and semantic processing during speech: An fMRI study

Brain and Language

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 114-119

  Rämä, Pia ^a,b,c   Relander Syrjänen, Kristiina ^a,d   Carlson, Synnöve ^a,d,e   Salonen, Oili ^f   Kujala, Teija ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^e TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^f HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Attention; FMRI; Language semantics; Spoken words

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUNEUS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUAL GYRUS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; JUDGMENT; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864309053     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2012.04.018     Document Type: Article

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