Form and content: Dissociating syntax and semantics in sentence comprehension

Neuron

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 427-432

  Dapretto, Mirella ^a   Bookheimer, Susan Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 0033213393     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(00)80855-7     Document Type: Article

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