Stimulating the brain's language network: Syntactic ambiguity resolution after TMS to the inferior frontal gyrus and middle temporal gyrus

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1664-1677

  Acheson, Daniel J ^a   Hagoort, Peter ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPREHENSION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROMODULATION; NEURONAVIGATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPREHENSION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84883166696     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00430     Document Type: Article

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