Converging evidence for the neuroanatomic basis of combinatorial semantics in the angular gyrus

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 3276-3284

  Price, Amy R ^a   Bonner, Michael F ^a   Peelle, Jonathan E ^b   Grossman, Murray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Angular gyrus; Combinatorial semantics; Compositionality; Conceptual combination; Semantic integration; Semantic memory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ANGULAR GYRUS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN CORTEX ATROPHY; BRAIN MAPPING; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEMANTICS; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION; YOUNG ADULT; BLOOD; COMPREHENSION; DEMENTIA; IMAGE PROCESSING; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION;

OXYGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INDIVIDUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; PARIETAL LOBE; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84923067272     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3446-14.2015     Document Type: Article

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