Basic linguistic composition recruits the left anterior temporal lobe and left angular gyrus during both listening and reading

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1859-1873

  Bemis, D K ^a   Pylkkanen L ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

auditory visual; basic combinatorics; language; magnetoencephalography; minimal phrases

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGULAR GYRUS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; LISTENING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

AUDITORY/VISUAL; BASIC COMBINATORICS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MINIMAL PHRASES;

ADULT; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; READING; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84877327718     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs170     Document Type: Article

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