Functionally Localizing Language-Sensitive Regions in Individual Subjects With fMRI: A Reply to Grodzinsky's Critique of Fedorenko and Kanwisher (2009)

Linguistics and Language Compass

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 78-94

  Fedorenko, Evelina ^a   Kanwisher, Nancy ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 79951792442     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1749818X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-818X.2010.00264.x     Document Type: Review

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