Individual differences in sentence comprehension: A functional magnetic resonance imaging investigation of syntactic and lexical processing demands

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1950-1963

  Prat, Chantel S ^a   Keller, Timothy A ^a   Just, Marcel Adam ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; MEMORY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INDIVIDUALITY; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 36849002941     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2007.19.12.1950     Document Type: Article

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