Neural correlates of processing passive sentences

Brain Sciences

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1198-1214

  Mack, Jennifer E ^a   Meltzer Asscher, Aya ^b   Barbieri, Elena ^a,c   Thompson, Cynthia K ^a,c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

fMRI; Sentence processing; Syntactic processing; Thematic processing

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; ARTICLE; ATAXIC APHASIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPREHENSION; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTICS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

EID: 84918528178     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20763425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/brainsci3031198     Document Type: Article

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