Microstates in language-related brain potential maps show noun-verb differences

Brain and Language

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 169-182

  Koenig, Thomas ^a   Lehmann, Dietrich ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PSYCHIATRY   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; READING;

EID: 0029897827     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/brln.1996.0043     Document Type: Article

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