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SUBMITTER: Garbin G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3445573 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Garbin Gabriele G Collina Simona S Tabossi Patrizia P
PloS one 20120918 9
In a functional MRI (fMRI) study, we have investigated the grammatical categories of object noun, event noun and verb in order to assess the cortical regions of activation supporting their processing. Twelve Italian healthy participants performed a lexical decision task. They had to decide whether a string was an Italian word or not. Words could be objects like medaglia (medal), or events like the noun pianto (cry); or the verb dormire (to sleep). Noun and verb comparison shows differences in re ...[more]