Neural correlates of verb argument structure processing

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1753-1767

  Thompson, Cynthia K ^a   Bonakdarpour, Borna ^a   Fix, Stephen C ^a   Blumenfeld, Henrike K ^a   Parrish, Todd B ^a   Gitelman, Darren R ^a   Mesulam, M Marsel ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NERVOUS TISSUE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 35748965845     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2007.19.11.1753     Document Type: Article

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