Using event-related potentials to examine hemispheric differences in semantic processing

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 133-138

  Atchley, Ruth Ann ^a   Kwasny, Kristin M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; VISUAL FIELD;

EID: 0242494211     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-2626(03)00095-2     Document Type: Article

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