The interface between language and attention: Prosodic focus marking recruits a general attention network in spoken language comprehension

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1836-1848

  Kristensen, Line Burholt ^a   Wang, Lin ^b,c,d   Petersson, Karl Magnus ^b,c   Hagoort, Peter ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

attention network; FMRI; information structure; pitch accent; sentence processing

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PARIETAL CORTEX; PITCH; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ATTENTION NETWORK; FMRI; INFORMATION STRUCTURE; PITCH ACCENT; SENTENCE PROCESSING;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; NERVE NET; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880207011     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs164     Document Type: Article

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