Hierarchical processing in spoken language comprehension

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 3423-3431

  Davis, Matthew H ^a   Johnsrude, Ingrid S ^a  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; FMRI; Hierarchical processing; Hippocampus; Human; Inferior frontal gyrus; Language; Primate; Sentence processing; Speech; Temporal lobe

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 0037995757     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-08-03423.2003     Document Type: Article

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