Brain mechanisms underlying human communication

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue JUL, 2009, Pages

  Noordzij, Matthijs L ^a,b   Newman Norlund, Sarah E ^a   de Ruiter, Jan Peter ^c   Hagoort, Peter ^a,c,d   Levinson, Stephen C ^c   Toni, Ivan ^a,d  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

FMRI; Interactive game; Social neuroscience; Superior temporal sulcus

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949290857     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.09.014.2009     Document Type: Article

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