fMRI adaptation dissociates syntactic complexity dimensions

NeuroImage

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1285-1293

  Santi, Andrea ^a,b   Grodzinsky, Yosef ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; BEHAVIOR; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952876794     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.03.034     Document Type: Article

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