Time course of semantic processes during sentence comprehension: An fMRI study

NeuroImage

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 924-932

  Humphries, Colin ^a   Binder, Jeffrey R ^a   Medler, David A ^a   Liebenthal, Einat ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; READING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS;

EID: 34250311292     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.03.059     Document Type: Article

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