Reconciling time, space and function: A new dorsal-ventral stream model of sentence comprehension

Brain and Language

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 60-76

  Bornkessel Schlesewsky, Ina ^a   Schlesewsky, Matthias ^b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anterior temporal lobe; Cognitive control; Dorsal stream; Hierarchical organisation; Inferior frontal gyrus; Language comprehension; Posterior temporal lobe; Semantics; Syntax; Ventral stream

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BRAIN CORTEX; COGNITION; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; NEUROANATOMY; PREMOTOR CORTEX; WORKING MEMORY;

BRAIN; COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; TIME;

EID: 84875631476     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2013.01.010     Document Type: Article

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