Processing lexical semantic and syntactic information in first and second language: FMRI evidence from German and Russian

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 266-286

  Rüschemeyer, Shirley Ann ^a   Fiebach, Christian J ^a,b   Kempe, Vera ^c   Friederici, Angela D ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; fMRI; Inferior frontal gyrus; Lexical semantic information; Superior temporal gyrus; Syntactic information

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GERMANY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PATTERN STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GERMANY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; RUSSIA; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 19544368156     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20098     Document Type: Article

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