Off-line sentence processing: What is involved in answering a comprehension probe?

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2499-2511

  Newman, Sharlene D ^a   Lee, Donghoon ^a   Ratliff, Kristen L ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Event related fMRI; Language; Sentence comprehension; Syntax; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; READING; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650495180     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20684     Document Type: Article

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