The cortical dynamics in building syntactic structures of sentences: An MEG study in a minimal-pair paradigm

NeuroImage

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1387-1396

  Iijima, Kazuki ^a,b   Fukui, Naoki ^c   Sakai, Kuniyoshi L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c SOPHIA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Frontal cortex; MEG; Semantics; Sentence processing; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MENTAL TASK; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149299661     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.10.041     Document Type: Article

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