Is Broca's area part of a basal ganglia thalamocortical circuit?

Cortex

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 480-485

  Ullman, Michael ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

BA 44; BA 45; Basal ganglia; Broca's area; Declarative memory; Grammar; Language; Lexicon; Morphology; Phonology; Procedural memory; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; FRONTAL CORTEX; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; MEMORY; NEUROANATOMY; PHONETICS; PREDICTION; SEMANTICS; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS; FRONTAL LOBE; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

BASAL GANGLIA; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; THALAMUS;

EID: 33747518294     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70382-4     Document Type: Article

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