Taxing working memory with syntax: Bihemispheric modulations

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1089-1097

  Santi, Andrea ^a   Grodzinsky, Yosef ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aphasia; Broca area; fMRI; Linguistics; Memory; Short term

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATAXIC APHASIA; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN REGION; COMPREHENSION; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TEMPORAL LOBE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; APHASIA, BROCA; APHASIA, WERNICKE; BRAIN MAPPING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 35948930134     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20329     Document Type: Article

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