Unification of speaker and meaning in language comprehension: An fMRI study

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2085-2099

  Tesink, Cathelijne M J Y ^a,b,e   Petersson, Karl Magnus ^a,c   Van Berkum, Jos J A ^a,c,d   Van Den Brink, Daniëlle ^a,b   Buitelaar, Jan K ^a,b   Hagoort, Peter ^a,c,e  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL BACKGROUND; SPEECH; VOICE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REFERENCE VALUES; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE QUALITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650080237     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2008.21161     Document Type: Article

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