Pathways to lexical ambiguity: fMRI evidence for bilateral fronto-parietal involvement in language processing

Brain and Language

Volumn 131, Issue , 2014, Pages 56-64

  Klepousniotou, Ekaterini ^a,b,c   Gracco, Vincent L ^b   Pike, G Bruce ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BROCA'S area 44; Event related fMRI; Homonymy; Inferior parietal lobule; Lexical ambiguity; Metaphor; Polysemy; Supramarginal gyrus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; BROCA AREA; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84898872704     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2013.06.002     Document Type: Article

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