A rostro-caudal gradient of structured sequence processing in the left inferior frontal gyrus

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1598, 2012, Pages 2023-2032

  Uddén, Julia ^a,b,c   Bahlmann, Jörg ^d,e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Cognitive control; Inferior frontal gyrus; Language; Lateral prefrontal cortex; Sequence processing

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

EID: 84862133484     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0009     Document Type: Review

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