Localization of syntactic comprehension by positron emission tomography

Brain and Language

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 452-473

  Stromswold, Karin ^a   Caplan, David ^b   Alpert, Nathaniel ^c   Rauch, Scott ^c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0029997648     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/brln.1996.0024     Document Type: Article

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