The role of left inferior frontal and superior temporal cortex in sentence comprehension: Localizing syntactic and semantic processes

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 170-177

  Friederici, Angela D ^a   Rüschemeyer, Shirley Ann ^a   Hahne, Anja ^a   Fiebach, Christian J ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; COMPREHENSION; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PUTAMEN; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0037296323     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/13.2.170     Document Type: Article

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