Scrambling effects on the processing of Japanese sentences: An fMRI study

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 151-166

  Kim, Jungho ^a,b   Koizumi, Masatoshi ^a,d   Ikuta, Naho ^a   Fukumitsu, Yuichiro ^a   Kimura, Naoki ^a   Iwata, Kazuki ^a   Watanabe, Jobu ^c   Yokoyama, Satoru ^a   Sato, Shigeru ^a   Horie, Kaoru ^a   Kawashima, Ryuta ^a,d  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

fMRI; Scrambling; Sentence comprehension; Word order

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPAN; JAPANESE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 58149335341     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2008.07.005     Document Type: Article

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