Semantic integration in reading: engagement of the right hemisphere during discourse processing
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Semantic integration in reading: engagement of the right hemisphere during discourse processing.
We examined the brain areas involved in discourse processing by using functional MRI in 10 individuals as they read paragraphs, with or without a title, word by word for comprehension. Functional data were collected from 20 adjacent 5 mm axial slices. Discourse processing was associated with activation in inferior frontal and temporal regions of both cerebral hemispheres in the titled and untit...
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عنوان ژورنال: Brain
سال: 1999
ISSN: 1460-2156,0006-8950
DOI: 10.1093/brain/122.7.1317