Semantic or lexico-syntactic factors: What determines word-class specific activity in the human brain?

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 275, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 81-84

  Pulvermüller, Friedemann ^a   Mohr, Bettina ^a   Schleichert, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electroencephalograph; Event related potential; Evoked potentials; Language; Noun; Semantics; Verb; Word class; Word processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SEMANTICS; WORD ASSOCIATION TESTS;

EID: 17744416568     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00724-7     Document Type: Article

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