Building phrases in language production: An MEG study of simple composition

Cognition

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 371-384

  Pylkkänen, Liina ^a,b   Bemis, Douglas K ^a   Elorrieta, Estibaliz Blanco ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Anterior temporal lobe; Language production; Left inferior frontal gyrus; Magnetoencephalography; Minimal phrases; Ventro medial prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; COMPREHENSION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LANGUAGE; LEFT ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBE; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COLOR; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COLOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84920925936     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2014.07.001     Document Type: Article

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