Functional specificity for high-level linguistic processing in the human brain
Neuroscientists have debated for centuries whether some regions of the human brain are selectively engaged in specific high-level mental functions or whether, instead, cognition is implemented in multifunctional brain regions. For the critical case of language, conflicting answers arise from the neu...
Main Authors: | Fedorenko, Evelina G. (Contributor), Behr, Michael K. (Contributor), Kanwisher, Nancy (Contributor) |
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Other Authors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Contributor), McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT (Contributor) |
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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National Academy of Sciences (U.S.),
2012-04-19T18:07:12Z.
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Online Access: | Get fulltext |
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