Response execution in lexical decision tasks obscures sex-specific lateralization effects in language processing: Evidence from event-related potential measures during word reading

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 978-989

  Hill, Holger ^a,c   Ott, Friederike ^a   Herbert, Cornelia ^b   Weisbrod, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b HEIDELBERG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Germany)

^c NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Evoked potentials; Gender; Language lateralization; Language processing; Semantic priming; Sex difference

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GENDER; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTICS; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WAVEFORM; WORD RECOGNITION;

BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DECISION MAKING; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; READING; SEMANTICS; SEX FACTORS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 33745603737     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhj040     Document Type: Article

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