Where the brain appreciates the final state of an event: The neural correlates of telicity

Brain and Language

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 68-74

  Romagno, Domenica ^a   Rota, Giuseppina ^b   Ricciardi, Emiliano ^b,c   Pietrini, Pietro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PISA   (Italy)

^c FONDAZIONE TOSCANA GABRIELE MONASTERIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Event knowledge; FMRI; Left middle temporal gyrus; Semantics; Telicity; Verb processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MENTAL TASK; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; SEMANTICS; TELICITY;

BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84865404059     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2012.06.003     Document Type: Article

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