Segregating semantic and syntactic aspects of processing in the human brain: An fMRI investigation of different word types

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 698-705

  Friederici, Angela D ^a   Opitz, Bertram ^a   Von Cramon, D Yves ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0033911015     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/10.7.698     Document Type: Article

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