Where agreement merges with disagreement: FMRI evidence of subject-verb integration

NeuroImage

Volumn 88, Issue , 2014, Pages 188-201

  Quiñones, Ileana ^a   Molinaro, Nicola ^a   Mancini, Simona ^a   Hernández Cabrera, Juan Andrés ^b   Carreiras, Manuel ^a,c,d  

^a BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^c BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Angular gyrus; FMRI; Left middle frontal gyrus; Subject verb agreement; Unagreement

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANGULAR GYRUS; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRECUNEUS; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; BRAIN MAPPING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FRONTAL LOBE; LANGUAGE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84892892138     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.11.038     Document Type: Article

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