When sex meets syntactic gender on a neural basis during pronoun processing

Brain Research

Volumn 1146, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 185-198

  Hammer, Anke ^a,c   Goebel, Rainer ^a,b   Schwarzbach, Jens ^a,b   Münte, Thomas F ^c   Jansma, Bernadette M ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

fMRI; Language; Pronoun processing; Semantic; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENDER; HUMAN; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROSCIENCE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 34047244030     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.06.110     Document Type: Article

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