Biology of linguistic expression impacts neural correlates for spatial language

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 517-533

  Emmorey, Karen ^a   McCullough, Stephen ^a   Mehta, Sonya ^b   Ponto, Laura L B ^c   Grabowski, Thomas J ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANTERIOR INSULA; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HAND MOVEMENT; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; LANGUAGE; LINGUAL GYRUS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

EID: 84874564873     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00339     Document Type: Article

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