BA 44 in Broca's area supports syntactic gender decisions in language production

NeuroReport

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1097-1101

  Heim, Stefan ^a,b   Eickhoff, Simon B ^a,c   Opitz, Bertram ^d   Friederici, Angela D ^e  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b Brain Imaging Center West   (Germany)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

Broca's area; Broca's region; Brodmann's area 44; Comprehension; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Gender; Language; Production; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; BROCA AREA; BRODMANN AREA 44; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GERMANY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

EID: 33745887485     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.wnr.0000224775.05023.42     Document Type: Article

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