Interactions between visual and semantic processing during object recognition revealed by modulatory effects of age of acquisition

NeuroImage

Volumn 87, Issue , 2014, Pages 252-264

  Urooj, Uzma ^a   Cornelissen, Piers L ^b   Simpson, Michael I G ^a   Wheat, Katherine L ^c   Woods, Will ^d   Barca, Laura ^e   Ellis, Andrew W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^e INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Age of acquisition; Beta band; Evoked; Induced; Magnetoencephalography; MEG; Object naming; Object recognition; Semantics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE OF ACQUISITION; ANTERIOR TEMPORAL REGION; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONTROLLED VOCABULARY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL REGION; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT RECOGNITION; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; REGION OF INTEREST; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VELOCITY; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

AGE OF ACQUISITION; BETA BAND; EVOKED; INDUCED; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MEG; OBJECT NAMING; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS;

ADOLESCENT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84890942495     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.10.058     Document Type: Article

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