Broca's area plays a role in syntactic processing during Chinese reading comprehension

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1371-1378

  Wang, Suiping ^a   Zhu, Zude ^a   Zhang, John X ^b   Wang, Zhaoxin ^c   Xiao, Zhuangwei ^c   Xiang, Huadong ^c   Chen, Hsuan Chih ^b  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c SHANTOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Broca's area; Chinese reading comprehension; fMRI; Syntactic processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COMPREHENSION; DECISION MAKING; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; READING; SEMANTICS; WRITING;

EID: 42749084485     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.12.020     Document Type: Article

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