Decoding abstract and concrete concept representations based on single-trial fMRI data

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1133-1147

  Wang, Jing ^a   Baucom, Laura B ^a   Shinkareva, Svetlana V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

FMRI; Language; MVPA

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CLASSIFIER; CONCEPT ANALYSIS; DATA PROCESSING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; JUDGMENT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84875898070     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21498     Document Type: Article

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