Brain regions that represent amodal conceptual knowledge

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 25, 2013, Pages 10552-10558

  Fairhall, Scott L ^a   Caramazza, Alfonso ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGULAR GYRUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; JUDGMENT; KNOWLEDGE; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879158338     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0051-13.2013     Document Type: Article

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