TY - JOUR AU - Assadollahi, Ramin AU - Rockstroh, Brigitte S. PY - 2008 DA - 2008/07/21 TI - Representation of the verb's argument-structure in the human brain JO - BMC Neuroscience SP - 69 VL - 9 IS - 1 AB - A verb's argument structure defines the number and relationships of participants needed for a complete event. One-argument (intransitive) verbs require only a subject to make a complete sentence, while two- and three-argument verbs (transitives and ditransitives) normally take direct and indirect objects. Cortical responses to verbs embedded into sentences (correct or with syntactic violations) indicate the processing of the verb's argument structure in the human brain. The two experiments of the present study examined whether and how this processing is reflected in distinct spatio-temporal cortical response patterns to isolated verbs and/or verbs presented in minimal context. SN - 1471-2202 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2202-9-69 DO - 10.1186/1471-2202-9-69 ID - Assadollahi2008 ER -