Brain activation during masked and unmasked semantic priming: Commonalities and differences

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2216-2229

  Ulrich, Martin ^a   Hoenig, Klaus ^a   Grön, Georg ^a   Kiefer, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; MALE; MASKING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; STIMULUS; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84886649632     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00449     Document Type: Article

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