EEG coherence within the 13-18 Hz band as a correlate of a distinct lexical organisation of concrete and abstract nouns in humans

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 209, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 17-20

  Weiss, Sabine ^a,b   Rappelsberger, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alpha band; Beta band; Coherence; EEG; Neurolinguitics; Spoken language

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029987130     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12581-7     Document Type: Article

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