Inferences during story comprehension: Cortical recruitment affected by predictability of events and working memory capacity

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2274-2284

  Virtue, Sandra ^a   Parrish, Todd ^b   Jung Beeman, Mark ^b  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; COMPREHENSION; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL RECRUITMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STORYTELLING; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; OXYGEN; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 56649111421     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2008.20160     Document Type: Article

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