Evidence of fronto-temporal interactions for strategic inference processes during language comprehension

NeuroImage

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 940-954

  Chow, Ho Ming ^a,b   Kaup, Barbara ^c   Raabe, Markus ^b   Greenlee, Mark W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Discourse processes; Dynamic causal modelling; fMRI; Inference; Language comprehension; Strategic processes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CAUSAL MODELING; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NERVE TRACT; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; READING; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 40649111836     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.11.044     Document Type: Article

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