Neural correlate of the construction of sentence meaning

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

Volumn 113, Issue 41, 2016, Pages E6256-E6262

  Fedorenko, Evelina ^a,b   Scott, Terri L ^c   Brunner, Peter ^d,e   Coon, William G ^d,f   Pritchett, Brianna ^g   Schalk, Gerwin ^d,e,f   Kanwisher, Nancy ^g  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^e ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^f STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^g MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Compositionality; ECoG; Language; Semantics; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; TEMPORAL CORTEX; WORD RECOGNITION; WORKING MEMORY; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; PHYSIOLOGY; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTRODES; FEMALE; HUMANS; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84991463754     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1612132113     Document Type: Article

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