Tracking down abstract linguistic meaning: Neural correlates of spatial frame of reference ambiguities in language

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Janzen, Gabriele ^a,b   Haun, Daniel B M ^c,d   Levinson, Stephen C ^b,c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PARIETAL LOBE; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTICS; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; LANGUAGE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY;

BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPACE PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84857183616     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030657     Document Type: Article

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