The language network

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 250-254

  Friederici, Angela D ^a   Gierhan, Sarah ME ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCUATE FASCICULUS; BETA NERVE FIBER; EXTREME CAPSULE FIBER SYSTME; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTO OCCIPITAL FASCILE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; ONTOGENY; PHONETICS; PHYLOGENY; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPETITION PRIMING; REVIEW; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SUPERIOR LONGITUDINAL FASCILE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SYNAPSE; UNCINATE FASCILE; WHITE MATTER LESION; WORKING MEMORY;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; NEURAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84875849011     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: 18736882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2012.10.002     Document Type: Review

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