The neural architecture of discourse compression

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 873-879

  Lillywhite, L M ^a,b   Saling, M M ^a,b   Demutska, A ^b   Masterton, R ^a,b   Farquharson, S ^a   Jackson, G D ^a,b  

^a FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Language; Mental representation; MRI; Repetition; Right hemisphere

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCOURSE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PARIETAL LOBE; SUPRASYLVIAN GYRUS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; NERVE NET; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PARIETAL LOBE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 76749152892     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.11.004     Document Type: Article

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