Direct brain recordings reveal hippocampal rhythm underpinnings of language processing

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 40, 2016, Pages 11366-11371

  Piai, Vitória ^a,b,c   Anderson, Kristopher L ^a   Lin, Jack J ^d   Dewar, Callum ^a   Parvizi, Josef ^e   Dronkers, Nina F ^f,g,h   Knight, Robert T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f VA NORTHERN CALIFORNIA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY HIGHER SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Recollection; Relational memory; Semantic memory; Sentence completion; Word production

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH RECORDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HIPPOCAMPUS THETA RHYTHM; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LANGUAGE TEST; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTIC MEMORY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; EVOKED RESPONSE; LANGUAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; SEMANTICS; THETA RHYTHM; TIME FACTOR; VOCABULARY;

ADULT; AGED; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEMANTICS; THETA RHYTHM; TIME FACTORS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84989892508     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1603312113     Document Type: Article

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