Electrophysiology reveals semantic memory use in language comprehension

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 463-470

  Kutas, Marta ^a   Federmeier, Kara D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; MEMORY; PERCEPTION; REVIEW; SPEECH ARTICULATION;

EID: 0034554860     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-6613(00)01560-6     Document Type: Review

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