Ventral premotor cortex lesions disrupt learning of sequential grammatical structures

Cortex

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 664-673

  Opitz, Bertram ^a   Kotz, Sonja A ^b  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

Artificial grammar; Language learning; Local and hierarchical sequences; P600

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL GRAMMAR; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VENTRAL PREMOTOR CORTEX LESION;

EID: 84860364726     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2011.02.013     Document Type: Article

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