Where syntax meets math: Right intraparietal sulcus activation in response to grammatical number agreement violations

NeuroImage

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1741-1749

  Carreiras, Manuel ^a,b,c   Carr, Lindsay ^d   Barber, Horacio A ^c   Hernandez, Arturo ^d  

^a BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION   (Spain)

^b BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Agreement; fMRI; Gender and number; Quantity processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTICS; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; PARIETAL LOBE; REACTION TIME; READING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70749110406     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.09.058     Document Type: Article

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