Fractionating language comprehension via frequency characteristics of the human EEG

NeuroReport

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 409-412

  Roehm, Dietmar ^a   Schlesewsky, Matthias ^a   Bornkessel, Ina ^b   Frisch, Stefan ^b   Haider, Hubert ^c  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Conflict resolution; Delta band; Evoked power; Language comprehension; N400; Phase locking index; Theta band; Whole power

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTA RHYTHM; DISSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FRACTIONATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THETA RHYTHM;

CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; SEMANTICS; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 1542297632     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200403010-00005     Document Type: Article

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