Beyond the language given: The neural correlates of inferring speaker meaning

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2572-2578

  Bašnáková, Jana ^a,b   Weber, Kirsten ^c   Petersson, Karl Magnus ^a   Van Berkum, Jos ^a,d   Hagoort, Peter ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Communication; fMRI; Indirect replies; Speaker meaning; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; DORSOMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; EMPATHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INSULA; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEDIAL FRONTAL CORTEX; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; ORAL COMMUNICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; TEMPOROPARIETAL JUNCTION; THEORY OF MIND; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84929046200     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bht112     Document Type: Article

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