Cortical activation related to auditory semantic matching of concrete versus abstract words

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 110, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1371-1377

  Krause, Christina M ^a,b   Åström, Teresia ^a,b   Karrasch, Mira ^a,b   Laine, Matti ^a   Sillanmäki, Lauri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Auditory processing; Concreteness abstractness; EEG; Event related desynchronization; Event related synchronization; Semantic memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; VERBALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0344690098     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(99)00093-0     Document Type: Article

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