A neurolinguistic model of grammatical construction processing

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2088-2107

  Dominey, Peter Ford ^a   Hoen, Michel ^a   Inui, Toshio ^b  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES COGNITIVES   (France)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BRAIN; ENGLAND; FRANCE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEUROLOGY; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS;

EID: 33845503241     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2006.18.12.2088     Document Type: Article

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