Brain correlates of language learning: The neuronal dissociation of rule-based versus similarity-based learning

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 39, 2004, Pages 8436-8440

  Opitz, Bertram ^a   Friederici, Angela D ^b  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

fMRI; Grammar; Hippocampus; Premotor cortex; Rule learning; Similarity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE CELL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH THERAPY;

ADULT; BRAIN; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 4744341807     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2220-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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