A neural dissociation within language: Evidence that the mental dictionary is part of declarative memory, and that grammatical rules are processed by the procedural system

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 266-276

  Ullman, Michael T ^a   Corkin, Suzanne ^b   Coppola, Marie ^c   Hickok, Gregory ^d   Growdon, John H ^e   Koroshetz, Walter J ^e   Pinker, Steven ^b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BOOK; DISSOCIATION; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0030999718     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.1997.9.2.266     Document Type: Article

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