The role of domain-general frontal systems in language comprehension: Evidence from dual-task interference and semantic ambiguity

Brain and Language

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 182-188

  Rodd, Jennifer M ^a   Johnsrude, Ingrid S ^b   Davis, Matthew H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Left inferior frontal gyrus; Lexical ambiguity; Semantic ambiguity; Speech comprehension

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 78049526799     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2010.07.005     Document Type: Article

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