The right hemisphere contribution to semantic categorization: A TMS study

Cortex

Volumn 64, Issue , 2015, Pages 318-326

  Passeri, Alessandra ^a   Capotosto, Paolo ^a   Di Matteo, Rosalia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Categorization; Language; Right hemisphere; TMS; Typicality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; LANGUAGE; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; WERNICKE AREA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WERNICKE AREA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84920887368     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2014.11.014     Document Type: Article

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