Making sense of nonsense: An fMRI study of task induced inference processes during discourse comprehension

Brain Research

Volumn 1166, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 77-91

  Siebörger, Florian Th ^a   Ferstl, Evelyn C ^a,b   von Cramon, D Yves ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dorso medial prefrontal cortex; FMRI; Inference; Text comprehension

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENTION; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 34547929599     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.05.079     Document Type: Article

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