Neural activity of inferences during story comprehension

Brain Research

Volumn 1084, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 104-114

  Virtue, Sandra ^a   Haberman, Jason ^b   Clancy, Zoe ^c   Parrish, Todd ^c   Jung Beeman, Mark ^c  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Comprehension; fMRI; Language; Lateralization; Semantic processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STORYTELLING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; SEMANTICS;

EID: 33646407841     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.02.053     Document Type: Article

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