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Language, Cognition and Neuroscience Volume 35, 2020 - Issue 6: The Neuroscience of Natural Language Processing (Part 2 ), edited by Olaf Hauk and Bela Weiss
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Discourse-level comprehension engages medial frontal Theory of Mind brain regions even for expository texts

Nir Jacobya Department of Psychology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Evelina Fedorenkob Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA;c Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA;d Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USAORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3823-514XView further author information
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Pages 780-796 | Received 29 Dec 2017, Accepted 10 Sep 2018, Published online: 26 Sep 2018

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