Neural correlates of syntactic movement: Converging evidence from two fMRI experiments

NeuroImage

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1320-1336

  Ben Shachar, Michal ^a,d   Palti, Dafna ^a,b   Grodzinsky, Yosef ^a,c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

fMRI; Syntactic movement; Topicalization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; AROUSAL; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 1842609790     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2003.11.027     Document Type: Article

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