title: Cortical activation in confrontation naming.
abstract: Functional magnetic resonance imaging was used to detect cortical activation in the right and left perisylvian cortex of seven young adult right-handed volunteers in response to a letter fluency task and to a visual naming task using standardized line drawings. Both letter fluency and visual naming activated left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (Brodmann's areas 6, 9, 44 and 45). Only visual naming activated area 37 (a cortical region with strong connections to visual association areas), visual association area 19, and areas 39 and 21 previously shown to activate with auditory semantic tasks. This study supports a role for area 37 as participant in a visual lexicosemantic processing network which may otherwise overlap the auditorysemantic network.
authors: Department of Neurology, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington 40536, USA.
authors: C D
authors: CD
authors: Smith
authors: A H
authors: AH
authors: Andersen
authors: Q
authors: Q
authors: Chen
authors: L X
authors: LX
authors: Blonder
authors: J E
authors: JE
authors: Kirsch
authors: M J
authors: MJ
authors: Avison
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001931:Brain Mapping; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008606:Mental Processes / Q000502:physiology*; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology