Hemodynamic Studies of Syntactic Processing

The Handbook of the Neuropsychology of Language

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 209-228

  Indefrey, Peter ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain activation measurement; Broca's area, in syntactic processing; Cognitive, or language processing problems; Hemodynamic sentence processing; Left hemispheric brain regions; Measurement technique (PET or fMRI); Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI); MRI measures, and electrical signals; Sentence comprehension; Syntactic processing, hemodynamic studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886326591     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118432501.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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