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Why Language Processing Recruits Modality Specific Brain Regions: It Is Not About Understanding Words, but About Modelling Situations

By: Zoé Cayol and  Tatjana Nazir  
Open Access
|Sep 2020

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.124 | Journal eISSN: 2514-4820
Language: English
Submitted on: Feb 19, 2020
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Accepted on: Sep 7, 2020
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Published on: Sep 30, 2020
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