Neural responses to morphological, syntactic, and semantic properties of single words: An fMRI study

Brain and Language

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 439-449

  Davis, Matthew H ^a   Meunier, Fanny ^a,b   Marslen Wilson, William D ^a  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b Institut des Sciences de l'Homme   (France)

Author keywords

Adjectives; Derivation; fMRI; Frontal lobe; Inflection; Language; Lexical processing; Morphology; Nouns; Semantic processing; Syntactic class; Temporal lobe; Verbs

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COMPREHENSION; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 2142833381     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00471-1     Document Type: Article

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