Where numbers meet words: A common ventral network for semantic classification

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 202-211

  Willmes, Klaus ^a   Moeller, Korbinian ^b   Klein, Elise ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b KNOWLEDGE MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive function; Fiber tracking; Language; Number processing; Ventral stream

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CONCEPT FORMATION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SEMANTICS; WHITE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONCEPT FORMATION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; SEMANTICS; WHITE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901293304     PISSN: 00365564     EISSN: 14679450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/sjop.12098     Document Type: Article

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