Distinguishing grammatical constructions with fMRI pattern analysis

Brain and Language

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 174-182

  Allen, Kachina ^a   Pereira, Francisco ^a   Botvinick, Matthew ^a   Goldberg, Adele E ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

BA22; BA47; FMRI; Grammatical constructions; MVPA

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LINGUISTIC THEORY; MULTI VOXEL PATTERN ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOLINGUISTIC THEORY; READING; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS; THEORY;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84869504844     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2012.08.005     Document Type: Article

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