Functional specificity for high-level linguistic processing in the human brain

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 39, 2011, Pages 16428-16433

  Fedorenko, Evelina ^a   Behr, Michael K ^a   Kanwisher, Nancy ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional MRI; Functional specialization; Modularity; Sentence understanding

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MUSIC; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX; WORKING MEMORY;

BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SPEECH;

EID: 80053643034     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1112937108     Document Type: Article

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