Category-related brain activity to natural categories is associated with the retrieval of visual features: Evidence from repetition effects during visual and functional judgments

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 260-273

  Sim, Eun Jin ^a   Kiefer, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Category related brain activation; Event related potentials; N400; Repetition priming; Semantic memory organization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 21544465907     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.02.006     Document Type: Article

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