Broca's area and sentence comprehension: A relationship parasitic on dependency, displacement or predictability?

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 821-832

  Santi, Andrea ^a,b   Grodzinsky, Yosef ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

FMRI; Parasitic gap; Predictability; Syntax; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPREHENSION; CONJUNCTION ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DEPENDENT; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; DISPLACEMENT; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING THEORY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTABILITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; OXYGEN; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84858437955     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.01.017     Document Type: Article

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