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SUBMITTER: Lauro LJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2995127 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lauro Leonor J Romero LJ Reis Janine J Cohen Leonardo G LG Cecchetto Carlo C Papagno Costanza C
Neuropsychologia 20101020 14
The specific role of the phonological loop in sentence comprehension is still a matter of debate. We tested the behavioural consequences of activity disruption in left BA40 and BA44, key regions of the phonological loop, on language comprehension using 1Hz rTMS. Comprehension was assessed by means of two tasks: a sentence-to-picture matching task, with sentences varying in length and syntactic complexity (Experiment 1), and a sentence verification task (Experiment 2). rTMS over left BA40 signifi ...[more]