Hemispheric differences in strong versus weak semantic priming: Evidence from event-related brain potentials

Brain and Language

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 23-43

  Frishkoff, Gwen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative strength; Event related potentials; Hemispheric asymmetry; Semantic priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMISPHERE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PERSONALITY TEST; RETINA FOVEA; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOPOGRAPHY; VISUAL FIELD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CUES; DECISION MAKING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PARIETAL LOBE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 33750967327     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2006.06.117     Document Type: Article

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