The role of the insula in speech and language processing

Brain and Language

Volumn 135, Issue , 2014, Pages 96-103

  Oh, Anna ^a   Duerden, Emma G ^a,b,c   Pang, Elizabeth W ^a,b,c  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Activation likelihood estimation (ALE); Articulation; Expressive language; Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); Insula; Receptive language; Speech production

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EXPRESSIVE LANGUAGE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; RECEPTIVE LANGUAGE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE; ADULT; BRAIN CORTEX; FEMALE; MALE; META ANALYSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; BROCA AREA; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84904858540     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2014.06.003     Document Type: Article

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