Neurocognition of auditory sentence comprehension: Event related fMRI reveals sensitivity to syntactic violations and task demands

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 19-33

  Meyer, Martin ^a   Friederici, Angela D ^a   Von Cramon, D Yves ^a  

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

Author keywords

Auditory sentence comprehension; Event related functional MRI; Right cerebral hemisphere

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COGNITION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033958940     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(99)00039-7     Document Type: Article

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