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spellingShingle Tyler, L. K., Randall, B., Stamatakis, E. A., Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Cortical Differentiation for Nouns and Verbs Depends on Grammatical Markers, Cognitive Neuroscience
title Cortical Differentiation for Nouns and Verbs Depends on Grammatical Markers
title_full Cortical Differentiation for Nouns and Verbs Depends on Grammatical Markers
title_fullStr Cortical Differentiation for Nouns and Verbs Depends on Grammatical Markers
title_full_unstemmed Cortical Differentiation for Nouns and Verbs Depends on Grammatical Markers
title_short Cortical Differentiation for Nouns and Verbs Depends on Grammatical Markers
title_sort cortical differentiation for nouns and verbs depends on grammatical markers
title_unstemmed Cortical Differentiation for Nouns and Verbs Depends on Grammatical Markers
topic Cognitive Neuroscience
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2008.20095