Co-localization of stroop and syntactic ambiguity resolution in Broca's area: Implications for the neural basis of sentence processing

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2434-2444

  January, David ^a   Trueswell, John C ^a   Thompson Schill, Sharon L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENTENCE PROCESSING; STROOP TASK; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COLOR PERCEPTION; COMPREHENSION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350437555     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2008.21179     Document Type: Article

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