Comprehending the topic of a paragraph: a functional imaging study of a complex language process Compreendendo o tópico de um parágrafo: um estudo de neuroimagem funcional sobre um processo lingüístico complexo
This study uses fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) to investigate the brain activity in a set of cortical areas in the task of main idea identification, when the topic sentence was presented in first versus in last position in a three-sentence paragraph. The participants were eight right-h...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
2008-01-01
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| Series: | DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-44502008000200002 |