Semantic processing of words, cognitive resources and N400: An event-related potentials study

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 327-330

  Monetta, Laura ^a,b   Tremblay, Tania ^a   Joanette, Yves ^a,b  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBALIZATION;

EID: 0242578391     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-2626(03)00136-2     Document Type: Article

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