Neural basis of semantic and syntactic interference in sentence comprehension

Brain and Language

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 314-326

  Glaser, Yi G ^a   Martin, Randi C ^b   Van Dyke, Julie A ^c   Hamilton, A Cris ^b   Tan, Yingying ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

FMRI; Interference; Left inferior frontal gyrus; Sentence comprehension; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

FMRI; INTERFERENCE; LEFT INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; SENTENCE COMPREHENSION; WORKING MEMORY;

BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84881134519     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2013.06.006     Document Type: Article

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