Word order and Broca's region: Evidence for a supra-syntactic perspective

Brain and Language

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 125-139

  Bornkessel Schlesewsky, Ina ^a,b   Schlesewsky, Matthias ^c   Cramon, D Yves von ^b,d  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

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

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR NEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Broca's area; Definiteness; Inferior frontal gyrus; Linearization; Pars opercularis; Prominence; Referentiality; Word order

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; DATA BASE; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; JUDGMENT; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70449523181     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2009.09.004     Document Type: Article

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