The functional neuroanatomy of morphology in language production

NeuroImage

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 732-741

  Koester, Dirk ^a,b   Schiller, Niels O ^c  

^a Center of Excellence in Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC)   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

BA 47; FMRI; Language production; LIFG; Mental lexicon; Morphology; Overt speech; Priming; Semantics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPEECH; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79551590925     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.11.044     Document Type: Article

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