The functional organisation of the fronto-temporal language system: Evidence from syntactic and semantic ambiguity

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1324-1335

  Rodd, Jennifer M ^a   Longe, Olivia A ^b   Randall, Billi ^b   Tyler, Lorraine K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Comprehension; FMRI; Semantics; Speech; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; NORMAL HUMAN; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949773308     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.12.035     Document Type: Article

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