Lateralized activation in the inferior frontal cortex during syntactic processing: Event-related optical topography study

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 89-99

  Noguchi, Yasuki ^a   Takeuchi, Tatsuya ^a   Sakai, Kuniyoshi L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Functional imaging; Hemodynamics; Language; Near infrared spectroscopy; Optical topography; Semantics; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FRONTAL CORTEX; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOPOGRAPHY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036790083     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.10050     Document Type: Article

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