Losing the sound of concepts: Damage to auditory association cortex impairs the processing of sound-related concepts

Cortex

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 474-486

  Trumpp, Natalie M ^a   Kliese, Daniel ^a   Hoenig, Klaus ^a   Haarmeier, Thomas ^b   Kiefer, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory association cortex; Embodiment; Grounded cognition; Semantic memory; Single case

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APHASIA; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; CASE REPORT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SOUND; SPEECH; VOICE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; HUMANS; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUSIC; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOICE; WORD ASSOCIATION TESTS;

EID: 84875275621     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2012.02.002     Document Type: Article

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