Language outside the focus of attention: The mismatch negativity as a tool for studying higher cognitive processes

Progress in Neurobiology

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 49-71

  Pulvermüller, Friedemann ^a   Shtyrov, Yury ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive neuroscience: Attention; EEG; ERP; Lexicality; MEG; Mismatch Negativity; Semantics; Spatio temporal patterns; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED RESPONSE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; LONG TERM MEMORY; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MEMORY; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; NERVE CELL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PHONETICS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; SPEECH;

EID: 33745685585     PISSN: 03010082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2006.04.004     Document Type: Review

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