Localizing the distributed language network responsible for the N400 measured by MEG during auditory sentence processing

Brain Research

Volumn 1096, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 163-172

  Maess, Burkhard ^a   Herrmann, Christoph S ^b   Hahne, Anja ^a   Nakamura, Akinori ^a,c   Friederici, Angela D ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR GERIATRICS AND GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain activity; Connected speech; Magnetoencephalography; N400; Semantic violation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NERVE NET; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 33745241372     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.04.037     Document Type: Article

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