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@article{citeulike:4414624, abstract = {The study investigates to what extent the posterior superior temporal cortex is involved in processing complex sentences. Using functional MRI, we show that hierarchically structured sentences activate the superior temporal cortex bilaterally to greater extent than sentences with a linear structure. The activation in the left hemisphere comprises the superior temporal gyrus and sulcus, whereas the activation in the right hemisphere is confined to the superior temporal sulcus. As earlier studies using similar syntactic structures in semantic-free grammars did not show activation in the superior temporal cortex but instead only in the prefrontal cortex, we conclude that the role of the posterior superior temporal cortex is to integrate lexical-semantic and syntactic information during sentence comprehension.}, author = {Friederici, A. D. and Makuuchi, M. and Bahlmann, J.}, citeulike-article-id = {4414624}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/WNR.0b013e3283297dee}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19287322}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=19287322}, day = {22}, doi = {10.1097/WNR.0b013e3283297dee}, issn = {1473-558X}, journal = {Neuroreport}, keywords = {jc-neuroreport}, month = {April}, number = {6}, pages = {563--568}, posted-at = {2009-04-28 08:33:07}, priority = {2}, title = {The role of the posterior superior temporal cortex in sentence comprehension.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/WNR.0b013e3283297dee}, volume = {20}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4414624 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4414624 N2 - The study investigates to what extent the posterior superior temporal cortex is involved in processing complex sentences. Using functional MRI, we show that hierarchically structured sentences activate the superior temporal cortex bilaterally to greater extent than sentences with a linear structure. The activation in the left hemisphere comprises the superior temporal gyrus and sulcus, whereas the activation in the right hemisphere is confined to the superior temporal sulcus. As earlier studies using similar syntactic structures in semantic-free grammars did not show activation in the superior temporal cortex but instead only in the prefrontal cortex, we conclude that the role of the posterior superior temporal cortex is to integrate lexical-semantic and syntactic information during sentence comprehension. IS - 6 JF - Neuroreport SN - 1473-558X EP - 568 TI - The role of the posterior superior temporal cortex in sentence comprehension. VL - 20 SP - 563 KW - jc-neuroreport AU - Friederici, AD AU - Makuuchi, M AU - Bahlmann, J PY - 2009/04/22/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/WNR.0b013e3283297dee ER -