BOLD response to motion verbs in left posterior middle temporal gyrus during story comprehension

Brain and Language

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 221-225

  Wallentin, Mikkel ^a,b   Nielsen, Andreas Højlund ^a,b   Vuust, Peter ^a,c   Dohn, Anders ^a,c   Roepstorff, Andreas ^a,b   Lund, Torben Ellegaard ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC   (Denmark)

Author keywords

FMRI; Language comprehension; Left posterior middle temporal gyrus; Motion verbs; Narrative; Simulation framework

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; BREATHING; CELL FUNCTION; COMPREHENSION; DATA ANALYSIS; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NEUROIMAGING; NOISE POLLUTION; PULSE WAVE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054100573     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2011.04.006     Document Type: Article

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