Semantic variability predicts neural variability of object concepts

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 76, Issue , 2015, Pages 41-51

  Musz, Elizabeth ^a   Thompson Schill, Sharon L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Context dependent representations; Object concepts; Semantic memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEMANTIC MEMORY; VISUAL CORTEX; WORD RECOGNITION; ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84944173926     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.11.029     Document Type: Article

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