• DOI:10.1162/jocn.1989.1.2.153
Corpus ID: 35159122

Positron Emission Tomographic Studies of the Processing of Singe Words

@article{Petersen1989PositronET,
  title={Positron Emission Tomographic Studies of the Processing of Singe Words},
  author={S. Petersen and P. Fox and M. Posner and M. Mintun and M. Raichle},
  journal={Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience},
  year={1989},
  volume={1},
  pages={153-170}
}

S. Petersen, P. Fox, +2 authors M. Raichle

Published 1989

Psychology, Medicine

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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PET images of blood flow change that were averaged across individuals were used to identify brain areas related to lexical (single-word) processing, A small number of discrete areas were activated during several task conditions including: modality-specific (auditory or visual) areas activated by passive word input, primary motor and premotor areas during speech output, and yet further areas during tasks making semantic or intentional demands.