White matter structural connectivity underlying semantic processing: Evidence from brain damaged patients

Brain

Volumn 136, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2952-2965

  Han, Zaizhu ^a   Ma, Yujun ^a   Gong, Gaolang ^a   He, Yong ^a   Caramazza, Alfonso ^b,c   Bi, Yanchao ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

brain damaged patient; connectome; DTI; semantic network

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN SIZE; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS; UNCINATE FASCICULUS; VISUAL STIMULATION; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84884837455     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awt205     Document Type: Article

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