Segregating the core computational faculty of human language from working memory

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 8362-8367

  Makuuchi, Michiru ^a   Bahlmann, Jörg ^a   Anwander, Alfred ^a   Friederici, Angela D ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

DTI fMRI; Hierarchical structure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FACTORIAL DESIGN; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBICULUM; WHITE MATTER; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 66249100907     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0810928106     Document Type: Article

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