Cortical systems for local and global integration in discourse comprehension

NeuroImage

Volumn 71, Issue , 2013, Pages 59-74

  Egidi, Giovanna ^a   Caramazza, Alfonso ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain behavior correlation; Context; Individual differences; Language network; Language processing; Semantic memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPREHENSION; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MEMORY; NETWORK LEARNING; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PULSE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84873146853     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.01.003     Document Type: Article

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