Gamma-band desynchronization in language areas reflects syntactic process of words

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 339, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 135-138

  Ihara, Aya ^a   Hirata, Masayuki ^a   Sakihara, Kotoe ^a   Izumi, Hiromi ^a   Takahashi, Yuko ^a   Kono, Kaoru ^a   Imaoka, Hiroyuki ^a   Osaki, Yasuhiro ^a   Kato, Amami ^a   Yoshimine, Toshiki ^a   Yorifuji, Shiro ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Event related desynchronization; Function word; Gamma band; Magnetoencephalography; Past tense; Supramarginal gyrus; Syntactic process; Synthetic aperture magnetometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0037457317     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(03)00005-3     Document Type: Article

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