What role does the anterior temporal lobe play in sentence-level processing? neural correlates of syntactic processing in semantic variant primary progressive aphasia

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 970-985

  Wilson, Stephen M ^a   DeMarco, Andrew T ^a   Henry, Maya L ^b   Gesierich, Benno ^b   Babiak, Miranda ^b   Mandelli, Maria Luisa ^b   Miller, Bruce L ^b   Gorno Tempini, Maria Luisa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; APHASIA, PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGED; APHASIA, PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84897374098     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00550     Document Type: Article

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