Broca's area and the language instinct

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 774-781

  Musso, Mariacristina ^a   Moro, Andrea ^b   Glauchel, Volkmar ^a   Rijntjes, Michel ^a   Reichenbach, Jürgen ^c   Büchel, Christian ^a   Weiller, Cornelius ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ITALY; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INSTINCT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0038730818     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1077     Document Type: Article

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