The Search for "Common Sense": An Electrophysiological Study of the Comprehension of Words and Pictures in Reading

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 89-106

  Ganis, Giorgio ^a,b   Kutas, Marta ^a   Sereno, Martin I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING;

EID: 0029878237     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.1996.8.2.89     Document Type: Article

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