Speaker-listener neural coupling underlies successful communication

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 32, 2010, Pages 14425-14430

  Stephens, Greg J ^a   Silbert, Lauren J ^a   Hasson, Uri ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional MRI; Intersubject correlation; Language comprehension; Language production

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE VARIABLE; SPEAKER LISTENER COUPLING MODEL; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COMMUNICATION; COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956277387     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1008662107     Document Type: Article

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