Flexible Composition: MEG Evidence for the Deployment of Basic Combinatorial Linguistic Mechanisms in Response to Task Demands

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Bemis, Douglas K ^a   Pylkkänen, Liina ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ABU DHABI   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884180517     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073949     Document Type: Article

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