Early activation of Broca's area in grammar processing as revealed by the syntactic mismatch negativity and distributed source analysis

Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 66-76

  Hanna, Jeff ^a,b   Mejias, Sandrine ^b,c   Schelstraete, Marie Anne ^b   Pulvermüller, Friedemann ^a   Shtyrov, Yury ^e,f   van der Lely, Heather K J ^b,d  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^f LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Broca; ERP; IFG; MMN; Morphology; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WAVEFORM; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED RESPONSE; LINGUISTICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN MAPPING; BROCA AREA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901476108     PISSN: 17588928     EISSN: 17588936     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17588928.2013.860087     Document Type: Article

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