The modulatory influence of the functional COMT Val158Met polymorphism on lexical decisions and semantic priming

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue AUG, 2009, Pages

  Reuter, Martin ^a   Montag, Christian ^a   Peters, Kristina ^b   Kocher, Anne ^a   Kiefer, Markus ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Catechol O methyltransferase; COMT Val158Met polymorphism; Executive control; Prefrontal cortex; Semantic priming

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878645733     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.09.020.2009     Document Type: Article

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