The neural substrates of spoken idiom comprehension

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1370-1391

  Hillert, Dieter G ^a   Buračas, Giedrius T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Broca's area; Figurativeness; Idioms; Neuroimaging; Parsing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BROCA AREA; CINGULATE GYRUS; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL GYRUS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOKEN IDIOM;

EID: 75149152583     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690960903057006     Document Type: Article

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