An architecture for encoding sentence meaning in left mid-superior temporal cortex

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 37, 2015, Pages 11732-11737

  Frankland, Steven M ^a,b   Greene, Joshua D ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive architecture; Compositionality; Comprehension; FMRI; PBEC

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; MULTIVOXEL PATTERN ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; READING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COMMUNICATION; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; READING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84941711125     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1421236112     Document Type: Article

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