Shared syntax in language production and language comprehension-An fMRI study

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1662-1670

  Segaert, Katrien ^a,b   Menenti, Laura ^b,c   Weber, Kirsten ^b   Petersson, Karl Magnus ^a,b   Hagoort, Peter ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

fMRI adaptation; grammatical encoding and decoding; repetition suppression; syntactic or structural priming; syntax

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; SYNTAX;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862147604     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr249     Document Type: Article

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