Syntactic complexity and frequency in the neurocognitive language system

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 1605-1620

  Yang, Yun Hsuan ^a,b   Marslen Wilson, William D ^a,b   Bozic, Mirjana ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; SYNTACTICS;

FREQUENCY EFFECT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LANGUAGE COMPREHENSIONS; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROBIOLOGICAL MODEL; RECENT RESEARCHES; SYNTACTIC COMPLEXITY; TEMPORAL NETWORKS;

COMPLEX NETWORKS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; FREQUENCY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN MAPPING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; LANGUAGE TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85026466671     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_01137     Document Type: Article

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