Abstract categories of functions in anterior parietal lobe

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 76, Issue , 2015, Pages 27-40

  Leshinskaya, Anna ^a   Caramazza, Alfonso ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstract concepts; Actions; Fmri; Inferior Parietal Lobule; Object functions; Semantic knowledge

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR PARIETAL LOBE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CONCEPT FORMATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEMANTICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84928584274     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.01.014     Document Type: Article

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