The language faculty, Broca's region, and the mirror system

Cortex

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 464-468

  Grodzinsky, Yosef ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Aphasia; fMRI; Modularity; Movement rules; Sentence processing; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATAXIC APHASIA; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MOTOR CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; FRONTAL LOBE; LANGUAGE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

APHASIA, BROCA; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS;

EID: 33747512486     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70378-2     Document Type: Article

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