Perisylvian functional connectivity during processing of sentential negation

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue MAY, 2011, Pages

  Bahlmann, Jörg ^a,b   Mueller, Jutta L ^a   Makuuchi, Michiru ^a   Friederici, Angela D ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

fMRI; Functional connectivity; Language; Negation; Semantic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865443874     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00104     Document Type: Article

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