Increased neuronal communication accompanying sentence comprehension

International Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 129-141

  Weiss, Sabine ^a,b   Mueller, Horst M ^b   Schack, Baerbel ^c   King, Jonathan W ^d   Kutas, Martha ^e   Rappelsberger, Peter ^a  

^a Medical University of Vienna   (Austria)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

EEG coherence; Gamma; Language; Large scale synchronization; Oscillation; Sentence processing; Theta; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTENTION; BETA RHYTHM; CALCULATION; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; FEMALE; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; SEMANTICS; THETA RHYTHM; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN; COMPREHENSION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; OSCILLOMETRY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 21744442762     PISSN: 01678760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2005.03.013     Document Type: Conference Paper

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