Role of the striatum in language: Syntactic and conceptual sequencing

Brain and Language

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 283-294

  Chan, Shiao Hui ^a,b   Ryan, Lee ^c   Bever, Thomas G ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; Corticostriatal network; FMRI; Sequencing; Striatum; Subcortical language function

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; CORTICOSTRIATAL NETWORK; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NERVE TRACT; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRESUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878177073     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2011.11.005     Document Type: Article

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