Syntactic computations in the language network: Characterizing dynamic network properties using representational similarity analysis

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue MAY, 2013, Pages

  Tyler, Lorraine K ^a   Cheung, Teresa P L ^a   Devereux, Barry J ^a   Clarke, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Language networks; Magnetoencephalography; Representational similarity analysis; Sentence processing; Syntactic ambiguity; Syntax

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878915451     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00271     Document Type: Article

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