Neuro-cognitive foundations of word stress processing - evidence from fMRI

Behavioral and Brain Functions

Volumn 7, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Klein, Elise ^a,b   Domahs, Ulrike ^c   Grande, Marion ^a   Domahs, Frank ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; INSULA; INTRAPARIETAL CORTEX; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; VOWEL; WORD STRESS PROCESSING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; PHONETICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 79955901433     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17449081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-9081-7-15     Document Type: Article

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