Prosody meets syntax: The role of the corpus callosum

Brain

Volumn 133, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2643-2655

  Sammler, Daniela ^a   Kotz, Sonja A ^a   Eckstein, Korinna ^a   Ott, Derek V M ^a   Friederici, Angela D ^a  

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

Author keywords

corpus callosum; interhemispheric transfer; prosody; syntax

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; OCCIPITAL LOBE; ORBIT; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN MAPPING; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956360179     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awq231     Document Type: Article

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