The contribution of EEG coherence to the investigation of language

Brain and Language

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 325-343

  Weiss, Sabine ^a,b   Mueller, Horst M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abstract; Concrete; EEG coherence; Frequency bands; Phase analysis; Review; Sentence processing; Spoken language; Verbal memory; Word processing

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; NERVE CELL; NEUROBIOLOGY; OSCILLATORY POTENTIAL; REVIEW; SPECTROSCOPY; SPEECH; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION; WRITING;

EID: 0038301153     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00067-1     Document Type: Review

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