Stretched, jumped, and fell: An fMRI investigation of reflexive verbs and other intransitives

NeuroImage

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1800-1806

  Shetreet, Einat ^a   Friedmann, Naama ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Hebrew; IFG; Lexicon; Neurolinguistics; Syntax; Unaccusativity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FRONTAL GYRUS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRANSITIVE VERB; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEFT INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LEFT INFERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEXIVE VERB; RIGHT INFERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL GYRUS; THEORY; UNACCUSATIVE VERB; UNERGATIVE VERB;

ADULT; BRAIN; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857745676     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.01.081     Document Type: Article

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