Neural differences in the processing of true and false sentences: Insights into the nature of 'truth' in language comprehension

Cortex

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 759-768

  Marques, J Frederico ^a   Canessa, Nicola ^b,c   Cappa, Stefano ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c National Neuroscience Institute   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cognitive processes; fMRI; Language; Meaning; Semantic memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE;

EID: 63449103463     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2008.07.004     Document Type: Article

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