An ERP study of low and high relevance semantic features

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 182-186

  Sartori, Giuseppe ^a   Mameli, Francesca ^a   Polezzi, David ^a   Lombardi, Luigi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

N400; Semantic memory; Semantic relevance

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONCEPT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; STUDENT;

ADULT; BRAIN; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33644850978     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2005.11.021     Document Type: Article

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