Brain connections of words, perceptions and actions: A neurobiological model of spatio-temporal semantic activation in the human cortex

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 98, Issue , 2017, Pages 111-129

  Tomasello, Rosario ^a,b,c   Garagnani, Max ^a,b   Wennekers, Thomas ^b   Pulvermüller, Friedemann ^a,c  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biologically inspired neural network; Cortical connectivity; Hebbian cell assembly; Semantic grounding; Word acquisition; Word recognition EEG MEG responses

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROBIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; SEMANTICS; SENSORY CORTEX; SIMULATION; SYMBOLISM; SYNAPSE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84997194362     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.07.004     Document Type: Article

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