Differential contributions of the inferior parietal and inferior frontal regions to the processing of grammatical and semantic relationships in wh-questions

Language Sciences

Volumn 37, Issue , 2013, Pages 14-21

  Kambara, Toshimune ^a,b,c   Tsukiura, Takashi ^a,d   Yokoyama, Satoru ^a   Takahashi, Kei ^a   Shigemune, Yayoi ^a,d   Miyamoto, Tadao ^a   Takahashi, Daiko ^a   Sato, Shigeru ^a,e   Kawashima, Ryuta ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Grammar; Semantics; Sentence comprehension; Violation paradigm; Wh questions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871984333     PISSN: 03880001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2012.07.003     Document Type: Article

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