Processing noncanonical sentences in Broca's region: Reflections of movement distance and type

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 694-702

  Makuuchi, Michiru ^a   Grodzinsky, Yosef ^b,c   Amunts, Katrin ^d,e   Santi, Andrea ^b   Friederici, Angela D ^a,f  

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

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

fMRI; language; movement; scrambling; syntax

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84873639529     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs058     Document Type: Article

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