Processing Linguistic Complexity and Grammaticality in the Left Frontal Cortex
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Processing linguistic complexity and grammaticality in the left frontal cortex.
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عنوان ژورنال: Cerebral Cortex
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1047-3211,1460-2199
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhj106