The neural mechanisms of speech comprehension: fMRI studies of semantic ambiguity

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1261-1269

  Rodd, Jennifer M ^a   Davis, Matthew H ^b   Johnsrude, Ingrid S ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Frontal cortex; Semantics; Sentences; Spoken language; Temporal lobe

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHYTHM; SEMANTICS; SPEECH;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURONS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 25444465994     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhi009     Document Type: Article

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