Independent representations of verbs and actions in left lateral temporal cortex

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2096-2107

  Peelen, Marius V ^a,b   Romagno, Domenica ^c   Caramazza, Alfonso ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT LATERAL TEMPORAL CORTEX; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MEMORY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865472746     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00257     Document Type: Article

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