The role of the posterior superior temporal sulcus in the processing of unmarked transitivity

NeuroImage

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 343-352

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

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

Animacy; Argument order; Language comprehension; Linearization principles; Pars opercularis; Posterior superior temporal sulcus; Transitivity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUBICULUM; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ADULT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 33846920633     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.11.045     Document Type: Article

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