Neural specificity for grammatical operations is revealed by content-independent fMR adaptation

The ability to generate novel sentences depends on cognitive operations that specify the syntactic function of nouns, verbs, and other words retrieved from the mental lexicon. Although neuropsychological studies suggest that such operations rely on neural circuits distinct from those encoding word f...

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Main Authors: Kevin A. Shapiro, Lauren R. Moo, Alfonso eCaramazza
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00026/full