Event-related electric microstates of the brain differ between words with visual and abstract meaning

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 106, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 535-546

  Koenig, T ^a,b   Kochi, K ^a   Lehmann, D ^a,b  

^a University of Zurich Brain Research Institute   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Abstract words; Brain electric field; Event related potentials; Language; Microstates; Visual imagery words

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BRAIN MAPPING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ADULT; BRAIN; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); READING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031803296     PISSN: 00134694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0013-4694(97)00164-8     Document Type: Article

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