The language of future-thought: An fMRI study of embodiment and tense processing

NeuroImage

Volumn 65, Issue , 2013, Pages 267-279

  Gilead, Michael ^a   Liberman, Nira ^a   Maril, Anat ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUTUROLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SEMANTICS; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868225187     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.09.073     Document Type: Article

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