The role of domain-general cognitive control in language comprehension

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue APR, 2014, Pages

  Fedorenko, Evelina ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; FMRI; Language; Modularity; Multiple demand system; Sentence processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899674065     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00335     Document Type: Article

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