The neural correlates of grammatical gender decisions in Spanish

NeuroReport

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 863-866

  Hernandez, Arturo E ^a   Kotz, Sonja A ^b   Hofmann, Juliane ^b   Valentin, Vivian V ^c   Dapretto, Mirella ^d   Bookheimer, Susan Y ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive neuroscience; FMRI; Language; Spanish; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GENDER; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSULA; LANGUAGE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPAIN;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENDER IDENTITY; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 1842452044     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200404090-00026     Document Type: Article

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