An event-related potential investigation of the relationship between semantic and perceptual levels of representation

Brain and Language

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 300-325

  Van Schie, Hein T ^a,c   Wijers, Albertus A ^a   Kellenbach, Marion L ^b   Stowe, Laurie A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attention; ERPs; Interference; Lower visual field; Object representation; Pictures; Semantic memory; Upper visual field; Words; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOLECULAR PROBE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PERCEPTION; SEMANTICS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0042164622     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-934X(02)00546-1     Document Type: Article

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