Neural circuits subserving the retrieval of stems and grammatical features in regular and irregular verbs

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 874-888

  De Diego Balaguer, Ruth ^a,b   Rodríguez Fornells, Antoni ^c,d   Rotte, Michael ^e   Bahlmann, Jörg ^e   Heinze, Hans Jochen ^e   Münte, Thomas F ^e  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Covert production; fMRI; Language; Morphology; Prefrontal; Spanish

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAMMAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; NERVE NET; OXYGEN; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33750581155     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20228     Document Type: Article

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