Distinct patterns of neural modulation during the processing of conceptual and syntactic anomalies

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 272-293

  Kuperberg, Gina R ^a   Holcomb, Phillip J ^b   Sitnikova, Tatiana ^b   Greve, Douglas ^a   Dale, Anders M ^a   Caplan, David ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MGH/MIT/HMS Athinoula A Martinos C ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; READING; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; READING; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0344406813     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089892903321208204     Document Type: Article

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