Neurodynamics of sentence interpretation: ERP evidence from French

Biological Psychology

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 337-346

  Isel, Frédéric ^a   Hahne, Anja ^a   Maess, Burkhard ^a   Friederici, Angela D ^a  

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

Author keywords

ELAN; French; Memory related frontal negativity; N400; P600; Reference processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY MEMORY; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTIC MEMORY; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADULT; AROUSAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33846469439     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2006.09.003     Document Type: Article

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