Imaginal, semantic, and surface-level processing of concrete and abstract words: An electrophysiological investigation

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1024-1037

  Caroline West, W ^a   Holcomb, Phillip J ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; COGNITION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0034543335     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/08989290051137558     Document Type: Article

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