Conceptual structure within and between modalities

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue DEC, 2012, Pages

  Dilkina, Katia ^a   Lambon Ralph, Matthew A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Concepts; Conceptual organization; Hub and spoke model; Modality specific knowledge; Multimodal knowledge; Semantic system

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN REGION; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; VERBALIZATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY;

EID: 84933671468     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00333     Document Type: Article

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