Sentence complexity and input modality effects in sentence comprehension: An fMRI study

NeuroImage

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 11-21

  Constable, R Todd ^a   Pugh, Kenneth R ^a,b   Berroya, Ella ^a   Mencl, W Einar ^a,b   Westerveld, Michael ^a   Ni, Weijia ^b   Shankweiler, Donald ^b,c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Complexity; Comprehension; Modality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 1942521306     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2004.01.001     Document Type: Article

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