Cortical differentiation for nouns and verbs depends on grammatical markers

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1381-1389

  Tyler, L K ^a,b   Randall, B ^a   Stamatakis, E A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN REGION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 48749126797     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2008.20095     Document Type: Article

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