EEG power and coherence analysis of visually presented nouns and verbs reveals left frontal processing differences

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 354, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 111-114

  Khader, Patrick ^a   Rösler, Frank ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coherence; Electroencephalogram; Nouns; Oscillatory activity; Synchronization; Verbs

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SPECTRUM; SPEECH; THETA RHYTHM; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0347418192     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2003.10.016     Document Type: Article

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