Grammaticality judgments on sentences with and without movement of phrasal constituents - An event-related fMRI study

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 16, Issue 4-5, 2003, Pages 301-314

  Wartenburger, Isabell ^a,b   Heekeren, Hauke R ^a,c   Burchert, Frank ^b   De Bleser, Ria ^b   Villringer, Arno ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Agrammatism; Broca's area; Event related functional magnetic resonance imaging; Grammaticality judgments; Syntactic traces; Trace Deletion Hypothesis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIC APHASIA; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PUTAMEN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THALAMUS; THEORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0037633456     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0911-6044(03)00028-9     Document Type: Article

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