Activation of human language processing brain regions after the presentation of random letter strings demonstrated with event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 270, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 13-16

  Jessen, Frank ^a   Erb, Michael ^b   Klose, Uwe ^b   Lotze, Martin ^b   Grodd, Wolfgang ^b   Heun, Reinhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angular gyrus; Event related functional magnetic resonance imaging; Frontal lobe; Letter string; Non word; Precuneus, Cingulate gyrus; Temporal lobe; Word processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; READING;

EID: 0033597993     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00453-X     Document Type: Article

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