Working memory and syntax interact in Broca's area

NeuroImage

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 8-17

  Santi, Andrea ^a   Grodzinsky, Yosef ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SUBICULUM; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 34447579237     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.04.047     Document Type: Article

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