Neural aspects of sentence comprehension: Syntactic complexity, reversibility, and reanalysis

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1853-1864

  Meltzer, Jed A ^a   McArdle, Joseph J ^a   Schafer, Robin J ^b   Braun, Allen R ^a  

^a National Institute on Deafness   (United States)

^b AAAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Broca's area; fMRI; language; semantic; syntax

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN REGION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEARING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEFT INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LEFT PRECENTRAL GYRUS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; SEMANTICS; SUPRASYLVIAN GYRUS; WORKING MEMORY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE NET; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955945045     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhp249     Document Type: Article

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