Both the middle temporal gyrus and the ventral anterior temporal area are crucial for multimodal semantic processing: Distortion-corrected fMRI evidence for a double gradient of information convergence in the temporal lobes

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1766-1778

  Visser, Maya ^a   Jefferies, Elizabeth ^b   Embleton, Karl V ^a   Ralph, Matthew A Lambon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; VENTRAL ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBE; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; FEMALE; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84865488427     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00244     Document Type: Article

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