Differential effects of syntactic and semantic processing on the subregions of Broca’s area
✍ Scribed by Sharlene D Newman; Marcel Adam Just; Timothy A Keller; Jennifer Roth; Patricia A Carpenter
- Book ID
- 114300512
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 686 KB
- Volume
- 16
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1872-6348
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