Broca's area plays a causal role in morphosyntactic processing

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 816-820

  Carreiras, Manuel ^a,b   Pattamadilok, Chotiga ^c   Meseguer, Enrique ^d   Barber, Horacio ^d   Devlin, Joseph T ^e  

^a BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION   (Spain)

^b BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gender and number; LIFG; Syntax; TMS

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MORPHOSYNTACTIC PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; REACTION TIME; SPANISH; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84858442233     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.01.016     Document Type: Article

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