Why is Broca's area involved in syntax?

Cortex

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 469-471

  Caplan, David ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Broca's area; Evolution of language; Neural basis of syntax; Syntactic processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; GRAMMAR; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NEUROANATOMY; PERCEPTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPEECH; EVOLUTION; FRONTAL LOBE; INJURY; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

EVOLUTION; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS;

EID: 33747518296     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70379-4     Document Type: Article

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