Linguistic prominence and Broca's area: The influence of animacy as a linearization principle

NeuroImage

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1395-1402

  Grewe, Tanja ^a   Bornkessel, Ina ^b   Zysset, Stefan ^b   Wiese, Richard ^a   Yves von Cramon, D ^b   Schlesewsky, Matthias ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animacy; Argument hierarchization; Inferior frontal gyrus; Language comprehension; Linearization principles; Pars opercularis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COMPREHENSION; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS;

EID: 33747790528     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.04.213     Document Type: Article

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