A case for the involvement of phonological loop in sentence comprehension

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 4003-4011

  Lauro, Leonor J Romero ^a,b   Reis, Janine ^b,c   Cohen, Leonardo G ^b   Cecchetto, Carlo ^a   Papagno, Costanza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Phonological loop; Sentence comprehension; TMS; Verbal short term memory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONETICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649444852     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.10.019     Document Type: Article

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