The functional neuroanatomy oftext comprehension: Whats the story so far?

Higher Level Language Processes in the Brain: Inference and Comprehension Processes

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 53-104

  Ferstl, Evelyn C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

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