Abstract grammatical processing of nouns and verbs in Broca's area: Evidence from fMRI

Cortex

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 540-562

  Sahin, Ned T ^a,b   Pinker, Steven ^a   Halgren, Eric ^c,d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate; Grammar; Insula; Language production; Morphology; Morphophonology; Morphosyntax; Regular irregular inflection; Speech production; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; READING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; WORD RECOGNITION; WORKING MEMORY; ADOLESCENT; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN MAPPING; CLINICAL TRIAL; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; SPEECH;

EID: 33747453101     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70394-0     Document Type: Article

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