Some regions within Broca's area do respond more strongly to sentences than to linguistically degraded stimuli: A comment on Rogalsky and Hickok (2011)

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2632-2635

  Fedorenko, Evelina ^a   Kanwisher, Nancy ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; COMPREHENSION; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 84860424054     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00043     Document Type: Review

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