Individual differences in the neural basis of causal inferencing

Brain and Language

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-13

  Prat, Chantel S ^a   Mason, Robert A ^b   Just, Marcel Adam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discourse; FMRI; Individual differences; Inference; Language; Neuroscience; Reading skill; Right hemisphere; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DISCOURSE ANALYSIS; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROMODULATION; PARIETAL LOBE; READING; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SKILL RETENTION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INDIVIDUALITY; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; READING;

EID: 78650291462     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2010.08.004     Document Type: Article

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