Syntactic circuits: How does the brain create serial order in sentences?

Brain and Language

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 194-199

  Pulvermüller, Friedemann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN NERVE CELL; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MEMORY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PHONEME; PHONETICS; REVIEW; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0342470389     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/brln.1999.2249     Document Type: Article

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