Effect of language task demands on the neural response during lexical access: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study

Brain and Behavior

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 402-416

  Gan, Gabriela ^a,b   Büchel, Christian ^a   Isel, Frédéric ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^d Laboratoire d'Excellence 'Empirical Foundations of Linguistics'   (France)

Author keywords

Associative priming; fMRI; Mental lexicon; Neural adaptation; Semantic processing; Suppression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BOOK; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL GYRUS;

EID: 84893487105     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21623279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/brb3.133     Document Type: Article

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