Neural mechanisms underlying the facilitation of naming in aphasia using a semantic task: an fMRI study

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Heath, Shiree ^a,c   McMahon, Katie L ^a   Nickels, Lyndsey ^b,c   Angwin, Anthony ^a,c   MacDonald, Anna D ^a,c   van Hees, Sophia ^a,c   Johnson, Kori ^a   McKinnon, Eril ^a   Copland, David A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL HEALTH AND MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aphasia; fMRI; Overt picture naming; Semantic verification; Semantics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPISODIC MEMORY; FACILITATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LINGUAL GYRUS; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; PHONETICS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RESPONSE TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAMES; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84864812744     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-13-98     Document Type: Article

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