Language-selective and domain-general regions lie side by side within Broca's area

Current Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 2059-2062

  Fedorenko, Evelina ^a   Duncan, John ^b   Kanwisher, Nancy ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH;

BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; SPEECH;

EID: 84868520319     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.09.011     Document Type: Article

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