The neurobiology of syntax: Beyond string sets

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1598, 2012, Pages 1971-1983

  Petersson, Karl Magnus ^a,b,c   Hagoort, Peter ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

CNTNAP2; fMRI; Implicit artificial grammar learning; Language related genes; Repeated transcranial magnetic stimulation; Spiking neural networks

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; NEUROLOGY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84862152972     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0101     Document Type: Review

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