Dissociable neural representations of grammatical gender in Broca's area investigated by the combination of satiation and TMS

NeuroImage

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 700-704

  Cattaneo, Zaira ^a,b   Devlin, Joseph T ^c   Vecchi, Tomaso ^a   Silvanto, Juha ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Inferior frontal gyrus; Language; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Verbal satiation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ITALY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; SATIATION; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349114393     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.04.097     Document Type: Article

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