Syntactic processing is distributed across the language system

NeuroImage

Volumn 127, Issue , 2016, Pages 307-323

  Blank, Idan ^a,b   Balewski, Zuzanna ^a   Mahowald, Kyle ^a   Fedorenko, Evelina ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional MRI; Language; Syntactic complexity; Syntactic processing

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SYNTACTIC PROCESSING; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY; ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; IMAGE PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84953321295     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.11.069     Document Type: Article

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