Operant conditioning of left-hemispheric slow cortical potentials and its effect on word processing

Biological Psychology

Volumn 53, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 177-215

  Pulvermüller, Friedemann ^a,b   Mohr, Bettina ^b   Schleichert, Hans ^b   Veit, Ralf ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive; EEG; Feedback; Hemisphere; Language; Lexical decision; Operant conditioning; Word processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TACHISTOSCOPY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; COGNITION; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0342521476     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-0511(00)00046-6     Document Type: Article

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