Artificial syntactic violations activate Broca's region

Cognitive Science

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 383-407

  Petersson, Karl Magnus ^a,b,c   Forkstam, Christian ^b,c   Ingvar, Martin ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Artificial grammar; Broca's region; FMRI; Functional neuroimaging; Language

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442706685     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogsci.2003.12.003     Document Type: Article

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