A dual-route account for access to grammatical gender: Evidence from functional MRI

Anatomy and Embryology

Volumn 210, Issue 5-6, 2005, Pages 473-483

  Heim, Stefan ^a,b,c   Alter, Kai ^d   Friederici, Angela D ^c  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b Brain Imaging Center West   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^d NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Broca's area; Dual route model; Grammatical gender; Language comprehension; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BRAIN REGION; COMPREHENSION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBALIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; STATISTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 28644445986     PISSN: 03402061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-005-0032-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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