Fusion and fission of cognitive functions in the human parietal cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 3547-3560

  Humphreys, Gina F ^a   Lambon Ralph, Matthew A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activation likelihood estimation analysis; Angular gyrus; Attention; Episodic retrieval; Functional neuroimaging; Inferior parietal lobule; Intra parietal sulcus; Neuropsychology; Numerical tasks; Parietal cortex; Phonological processing; Semantic processing; Sentence level processing; Supramarginal gyrus; The default mode network; Tool related tasks

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; DORSAL PARIETAL CORTEX; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PHONETICS; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; SEMANTICS; VENTRAL PARIETAL CORTEX; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COGNITION; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PARIETAL LOBE;

EID: 84936059222     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu198     Document Type: Article

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