Semantic integration in reading: Engagement of the right hemisphere during discourse processing

Brain

Volumn 122, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1317-1325

  St George, M ^a,b   Kutas, M ^a   Martinez, A ^a   Sereno, M I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional MRI; Language; Right hemisphere; Semantic integration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BRAIN; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MIDDLE AGED; READING; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0032810417     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/122.7.1317     Document Type: Article

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