The role of the temporal lobe in contextual sentence integration: A single-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation study

Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-7

  Franzmeier, Imke ^a,b   Hutton, Sam B ^a   Ferstl, Evelyn C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerebral hemispheres; Contextual sentence integration; Semantics; Temporal lobe; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTEXTUAL SENTENCE INTEGRATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; REACTION TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS; SINGLE PULSE TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84858187216     PISSN: 17588928     EISSN: 17588936     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17588928.2011.556248     Document Type: Article

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