Determinants of BOLD signal correlates of processing object-extracted relative clauses

Cortex

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 591-604

  Chen, Evan ^a   West, W Caroline ^a,b   Waters, Gloria ^c   Caplan, David ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animacy; fMRI syntax; Relative clauses

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION; WORKING MEMORY; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; READING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

OXYGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; READING;

EID: 33747473287     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70397-6     Document Type: Article

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