The left inferior frontal gyrus under focus: An fMRI study of the production of deixis via syntactic extraction and prosodic focus

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 237-258

  Lœvenbruck, Hélène ^a   Baciu, Monica ^b   Segebarth, Christoph ^c   Abry, Christian ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE MENDÈS FRANCE   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Agent deixis; Left inferior frontal gyrus; Prosodic focus; Speech production; Syntactic extraction

Indexed keywords

BRAIN FUNCTION; CINGULATE GYRUS; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 18144426438     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2004.12.002     Document Type: Article

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