Dissociating frontotemporal contributions to semantic ambiguity resolution in spoken sentences

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1761-1773

  Rodd, Jennifer M ^a   Johnsrude, Ingrid S ^b   Davis, Matthew H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

fMRI; frontal lobes; lexical ambiguity; semantic selection; speech

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPREHENSION; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; EVOKED RESPONSE; FRONTAL GYRUS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; LEFT INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC AMBIGUITY; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863637108     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr252     Document Type: Article

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