EEG brain mapping of phonological and semantic tasks in Italian and German languages

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 706-716

  Angrilli, Alessandro ^a,b   Dobel, Christian ^a   Rockstroh, Brigitte ^a   Stegagno, Luciano ^b   Elbert, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Language; Lexical access; Phonological encoding; Semantic processing; Slow cortical potentials

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN SLICE; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ITALY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GERMANY; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; PHONETICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0034177440     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(99)00308-9     Document Type: Article

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