Cognitive and Anatomical Underpinnings of the Conceptual Knowledge for Common Objects and Familiar People: A Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Campanella, Fabio ^a,b   Fabbro, Franco ^b,c   Urgesi, Cosimo ^b,c  

^a SANTA MARIA DELLA MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^c SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTIC MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

BRAIN; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877999679     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064596     Document Type: Article

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