Parametric effects of syntactic-semantic conflict in Broca's area during sentence processing

Brain and Language

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 259-264

  Thothathiri, Malathi ^a,b   Kim, Albert ^c   Trueswell, John C ^a   Thompson Schill, Sharon L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b MOSS REHABILITATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Broca's area; Executive function; Language; Left inferior frontal cortex; Semantics; Sentence processing; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MENTAL TASK; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTICS; SYNTACTIC; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84858005334     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2011.12.004     Document Type: Article

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