Dissociating linguistic processes in the left inferior frontal cortex with transcranial magnetic stimulation.

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Is the left inferior frontal cortex (LIFC) a single functional region, or can it be subdivided into distinct areas that contribute differently to word processing? Here we used transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to investigate anterior and posterior LIFC when the meaning and sound of words were being processed. Relative to no stimulation, TMS of the anterior LIFC selectively increased response latencies when participants focused on the meaning of simultaneously presented words (i.e., syno...

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Authors: Gough, P; Nobre, A; Devlin, J

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
• Volume: 25
• Issue: 35
• Pages: 8010-8016
• Publication date: 2005-08-01
• DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.2307-05.2005
• EISSN: 1529-2401
• ISSN: 0270-6474
• Language: English
• Keywords: Frontal Lobe; Female; Humans; Reaction Time; Brain Mapping; Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation; Acoustic Stimulation; Adult; Male; Language; Photic Stimulation; Dominance, Cerebral