About the Authors

Adam McNamara

a.mcnamara@surrey.ac.uk

Affiliations NeuroImage Nord, Department of Neurology, UKSH, Luebeck, Germany, Department of Psychology, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom

Giovanni Buccino

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, Universita Degli Studi di Parma, Parma, Italy

Mareike M. Menz

Affiliations NeuroImage Nord, Department of Neurology, UKSH, Luebeck, Germany, NeuroImage Nord, Department of Systems Neuroscience, University Medical Centre Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Jan Gläscher

Affiliation NeuroImage Nord, Department of Systems Neuroscience, University Medical Centre Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Thomas Wolbers

Affiliation NeuroImage Nord, Department of Systems Neuroscience, University Medical Centre Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Annette Baumgärtner

Affiliation NeuroImage Nord, Department of Systems Neuroscience, University Medical Centre Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Ferdinand Binkofski

Affiliation NeuroImage Nord, Department of Neurology, UKSH, Luebeck, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FB. Performed the experiments: AJM. Analyzed the data: AJM. Wrote the paper: AJM GB MMM FB. Contributed significantly in assisting Adam McNamara in learning how to analyse fMRI data: JG TW. Involved in interpreting data in terms of formal theories of language: AB.