The anterior left inferior frontal gyrus contributes to semantic unification

NeuroImage

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2230-2237

  Zhu, Zude ^a   Hagoort, Peter ^b,c   Zhang, John X ^d   Feng, Gangyi ^a   Chen, Hsuan Chih ^d   Bastiaansen, Marcel ^b,c   Wang, Suiping ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^d CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

ALIFG; Semantic unification; Violation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANTERIOR LEFT INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FONT SIZE JUDGMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC CONGRUENCY JUDGMENT; SEMANTICS; SILENT READING FOR COMPREHENSION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862784214     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.02.036     Document Type: Article

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