Do communicative production and comprehension rely on overlapping brain processes?

Using magnetoencephalography (MEG), we found that the same right-hemisphere brain regions supported both production and comprehension and were already active before a communicative behavior was generated or interpreted during social interaction.

Authors

Arjen Stolk, Lennart Verhagen, Jan-Mathijs Schoffelen, Robert Oostenveld, Mark Blokpoel, Peter Hagoort, Iris van Rooij, Ivan Toni

Publication

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)

August 19, 2013

Research paper

Do communicative production and comprehension rely on overlapping brain processes?

August 19, 2013

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Authors

Arjen Stolk, Lennart Verhagen, Jan-Mathijs Schoffelen, Robert Oostenveld, Mark Blokpoel, Peter Hagoort, Iris van Rooij, Ivan Toni

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