Distinct time courses of word and context comprehension in the left temporal cortex

Brain

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1133-1142

  Helenius, Päivi ^a   Salmelin, Riitta ^a   Service, Elisabet ^b   Connolly, John F ^c  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Functional brain imaging; Magnetoencephalography; N400; Reading; Semantic processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; READING; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031860791     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/121.6.1133     Document Type: Article

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