Grammatical categories in the brain: The role of morphological structure

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1812-1820

  Longe, O ^a   Randall, B ^a   Stamatakis, E A ^a   Tyler, L K ^a  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

fMRI; Inflection; Noun; Stem; Verb

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLUM; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 34547685972     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhl099     Document Type: Article

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