High-frequency cortical responses reflect lexical processing: An MEG study

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 76-85

  Pulvermüller, Friedemann ^a   Eulitz, Carsten ^b   Pantev, Christo ^b   Mohr, Bettina ^a   Feige, Bernd ^b   Lutzenberger, Werner ^a   Elbert, Thomas ^b   Birbaumer, Niels ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

30 Hz; Beta; Cell assembly; Cognitive; Evoked spectral responses; Gamma; Language; Magnetoencephalography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MENTAL PROCESSES;

EID: 0030070790     PISSN: 00134694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0013-4694(95)00191-3     Document Type: Article

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