Cortex
Volume 45, Issue 5 , Pages 641-649 , May 2009

Where (in the brain) do semantic errors come from?

  • Lauren Cloutman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA
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  • Rebecca Gottesman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA
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  • Priyanka Chaudhry

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA
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  • Cameron Davis

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA
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  • Jonathan T. Kleinman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA
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  • Mikolaj Pawlak

      Affiliations

    • University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Department of Radiology, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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  • Edward H. Herskovits

      Affiliations

    • University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Department of Radiology, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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  • Vijay Kannan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA
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  • Andrew Lee

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA
    • ,
  • Melissa Newhart

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA
    • ,
  • Jennifer Heidler-Gary

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA
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  • Argye E. Hillis

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA
    • Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA
    • Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Meyer 6-113, 600 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.

Received 5 April 2007 ,Revised 11 February 2008 ,Accepted 22 May 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2008.05.013

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