How left inferior frontal cortex participates in syntactic processing: Evidence from aphasia

Brain and Language

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 203-219

  Love, Tracy ^a,b   Swinney, David ^b   Walenski, Matthew ^b   Zurif, Edgar ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aphasia; Broca's area; Gap filling; Neurolinguistics; On line; Priming; Rate of speech; Sentence processing; Slow rise time; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATAXIC APHASIA; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; PARAMETER; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APHASIA, BROCA; COMPREHENSION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL LEARNING; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 55749113214     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2007.11.004     Document Type: Article

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