Nouns and verbs in the intact brain: Evidence from event-related potentials and high-frequency cortical responses

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 497-506

  Pulvermüller, Friedemann ^a   Lutzenberger, Werner ^b   Preissl, Hubert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0032812065     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/9.5.497     Document Type: Article

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