Priming nouns and verbs: Differential influences of semantic and grammatical cues in the two cerebral hemispheres

Brain and Language

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 12-24

  Arambel, Stella R ^a   Chiarello, Christine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral asymmetries; Nouns; Sentences priming; Verbs

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; BRAIN; CUES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SEMANTICS; VISUAL FIELDS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33644980487     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2005.07.003     Document Type: Article

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