Brain rhythms of language: Nouns versus verbs

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 937-941

  Pulvermüller, Friedemann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell assembly; Cognitive; Gamma band; Language; Noun; Verb

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALP; VERBALIZATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0029942641     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.1996.tb01580.x     Document Type: Article

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