Neural Correlates of Syntactic Transformations

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 72-81

  Wartenburger, Isabell ^a,b,c,d   Heekeren, Hauke R ^a   Burchert, Frank ^b   Heinemann, Steffi ^b   De Bleser, Ria ^b   Villringer, Arno ^a  

^a Berlin NeuroImaging Center   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agrammatism; Aphasia; Auditory; Broca's area; Event related fMRI; Grammaticality judgments; Language; Non canonical; Syntactic traces; Trace deletion hypothesis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APHASIA; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COMPREHENSION; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 2342509114     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20021     Document Type: Article

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