Conversational interaction in the scanner: Mentalizing during language processing as revealed by MEG

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 3219-3234

  Bögels, Sara ^a,b   Barr, Dale J ^b   Garrod, Simon ^b   Kessler, Klaus ^b,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conversational interaction; Episodic working memory; Magnetoencephalography; Perspective taking; Pragmatics; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERSATION; EPISODIC MEMORY; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY SYSTEM; MAGNETOMETER; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OSCILLATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPOROPARIETAL JUNCTION; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED RESPONSE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; STUDENT; THEORY OF MIND; UNIVERSITY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN WAVES; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMMUNICATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; STUDENTS; THEORY OF MIND; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 84948812372     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu116     Document Type: Article

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