The processing of semantic meaning in Chinese words and evoked brain topography

Brain Topography

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 255-259

  Skrandies, Wolfgang ^a   Chiu, Ming Jang ^b   Lin, Yuru ^b  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chinese Language; Event related potentials; German; Human electrophysiology; Language; Semantic meaning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 3342941797     PISSN: 08960267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:BRAT.0000032861.00691.8d     Document Type: Article

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