Neural correlates of morphological decomposition in a morphologically rich language: An fMRI study

Brain and Language

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 182-193

  Lehtonen, Minna ^a,b   Vorobyev, Victor A ^b   Hugdahl, Kenneth ^c,d   Tuokkola, Terhi ^b,e   Laine, Matti ^a,b  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^e HOSPITAL DISTRICT OF SOUTHWEST FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Finnish; fMRI; Inflection; Morphological processing; Semantic processing; Syntactic processing; Visual word form processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; SEMANTICS; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33745947186     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2006.04.011     Document Type: Article

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