Is the N400 category-specific? A face and language processing study

NeuroReport

Volumn 15, Issue 17, 2004, Pages 2589-2593

  Caldara, Roberto ^a   Jermann, Françoise ^a   López Arango, Gabriela ^a   Van Der Linden, Martial ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Face processing; Language processing; N400; NI70; Source localization

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACIAL IDENTITY; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; LORETA INVERSE SOLUTION; N400 EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALP; SEMANTICS; TOPOGRAPHY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEMANTICS;

EID: 11144224603     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200412030-00006     Document Type: Article

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