Dissociating the semantic function of two neighbouring subregions in the left lateral anterior temporal lobe

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 76, Issue , 2015, Pages 153-162

  Sanjuán, Ana ^a,b   Hope, Thomas M H ^a   Parker Jones, 'Oiwi ^a,c   Prejawa, Susan ^a   Oberhuber, Marion ^a   Guerin, Julie ^a   Seghier, Mohamed L ^a   Green, David W ^a   Price, Cathy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

^c WOLFSON COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anterior temporal lobe; FMRI; Naming; Semantic memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT LATERAL ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION; BRAIN MAPPING; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECALL; RECOGNITION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84925058223     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.12.004     Document Type: Article

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