Brain network connectivity during language comprehension: Interacting linguistic and perceptual subsystems

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 3962-3976

  Fonteneau, Elisabeth ^a,b   Bozic, Mirjana ^a,b   Marslen Wilson, William D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gamma oscillations; MEG; Morphology; Speech comprehension

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPREHENSION; CONNECTOME; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PARS OPERCULARIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; ADOLESCENT; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; GAMMA RHYTHM; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NERVE NET; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84948704302     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu283     Document Type: Article

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