A functional neuroimaging investigation of the roles of structural complexity and task-demand during auditory sentence processing

Cortex

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 577-590

  Love, Tracy ^a,b   Haist, Frank ^c   Nicol, Janet ^d   Swinney, David ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Broca's area; fMRI; Sentence complexity; Task demands

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION; WORKING MEMORY; BRAIN MAPPING; CLINICAL TRIAL; FRONTAL LOBE; IMAGE PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MEMORY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33747482986     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70396-4     Document Type: Article

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