Linking ordering in Broca's area to storage in left temporo-parietal regions: The case of sentence processing

NeuroImage

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1987-1998

  Meyer, Lars ^a   Obleser, Jonas ^a   Anwander, Alfred ^a   Friederici, Angela D ^a  

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

Author keywords

Inferior frontal gyrus; Inferior parietal cortex; Sentence processing; Superior longitudinal fasciculus; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARCUATE FASCICULUS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NERVE TRACT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PARS OPERCULARIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENTENCE PROCESSING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPERIOR LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORO PARIETAL CORTEX; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84863661937     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.05.052     Document Type: Article

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