The neural substrates of complex argument structure representations: Processing "alternating transitivity" verbs

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1154-1168

  Meltzer Asscher, Aya ^a   Schuchard, Julia ^a   den Ouden, Dirk Bart ^a,b   Thompson, Cynthia K ^a,c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Argument structure; fMRI; Verbs

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGULAR GYRUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; THEMATIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 84883639621     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690965.2012.672754     Document Type: Article

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