The LATL as locus of composition: MEG evidence from English and Arabic

Brain and Language

Volumn 141, Issue , 2015, Pages 124-134

  Westerlund, Masha ^a   Kastner, Itamar ^a   Al Kaabi, Meera ^a   Pylkkänen, Liina ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ABU DHABI   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Composition; Left anterior temporal lobe; MEG; Semantics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; PHYSIOLOGY; READING; YOUNG ADULT;

BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; READING; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84920873611     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2014.12.003     Document Type: Article

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