The cortical language circuit: From auditory perception to sentence comprehension

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 262-268

  Friederici, Angela D ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN REGIONS; COMPREHENSIVE MODEL; GRAY MATTER; INFORMATION FLOWS; LANGUAGE COMPREHENSIONS; PREDICTIVE PROCESS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROCESSING STEPS; TOPDOWN; WHITE-MATTER FIBER TRACTS;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

BRAIN;

AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; COMPREHENSION; GRAY MATTER; HEARING; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NEUROANATOMY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REVIEW; TEMPORAL CORTEX; WHITE MATTER;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET;

EID: 84860388381     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2012.04.001     Document Type: Review

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