Music, language and meaning: Brain signatures of semantic processing

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 302-307

  Koelsch, Stefan ^a   Kasper, Elisabeth ^a   Sammler, Daniela ^a   Schulze, Katrin ^a   Gunter, Thomas ^a   Friederici, Angela D ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; MEASUREMENT; MUSIC; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MUSIC; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 1442275401     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1197     Document Type: Article

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