The involvement of the thalamus in semantic retrieval: A clinical group study

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 872-886

  Pergola, Giulio ^a   Bellebaum, Christian ^b   Gehlhaar, Britta ^b   Koch, Benno ^c   Schwarz, Michael ^c   Daum, Irene ^b   Suchan, Boris ^b  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c Municipal Hospital Dortmund   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANOMIA; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEMANTIC MEMORY RETRIEVAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WORD LIST RECALL;

EID: 84876983235     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00364     Document Type: Article

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