Grammatical gender in the brain: Evidence from an fMRI study on Italian

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 301-308

  Padovani, Roberto ^a   Calandra Buonaura, Giovanna ^a   Cacciari, Cristina ^a   Benuzzi, Francesca ^a   Nichelli, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Broca's area; Gender decision task; Neural correlates; Syntax; Visual word processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENDER; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; ITALY; LANGUAGE; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; VASCULARIZATION;

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ITALY; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 20344372198     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2004.11.025     Document Type: Article

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