Language lateralization in phonological, semantic and orthographic tasks: A slow evoked potential study

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 175, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 296-304

  Spironelli, Chiara ^a   Angrilli, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

EEG; ERPs; Language lateralization; Phonological encoding; Semantic processing; Slow cortical potentials

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS;

EID: 33751010505     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2006.08.038     Document Type: Article

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