N400-like magnetoencephalography responses modulated by semantic context, word frequency, and lexical class in sentences

NeuroImage

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1101-1116

  Halgren, Eric ^a,b   Dhond, Rupali P ^a,c   Christensen, Natalie ^c   Van Petten, Cyma ^d   Marinkovic, Ksenija ^a   Lewine, Jeffrey D ^c   Dale, Anders M ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Language; Lexicon; Magnetoencephalography; Perirhinal cortex; Pre frontal cortex; Reading; Semantic context; Sentences; Temporal lobe

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPOLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LATENT PERIOD; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MODEL; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0036429591     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nimg.2002.1268     Document Type: Article

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