On-line changing of thinking about words: The effect of cognitive context on neural responses to verb reading

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2348-2362

  Papeo, Liuba ^a,c,d   Rumiati, Raffaella Ida ^a   Cecchetto, Cinzia ^a   Tomasino, Barbara ^b  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENTAL PROCESSES; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; NEURONS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; ROTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868268402     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00291     Document Type: Article

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