N400, the reference electrode, and the semantic activation in prime-task experiments: A reply to Dombrowski and Heil (2006)

Brain Research

Volumn 1147, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 209-212

  Marí Beffa, Paloma ^a   Catena, Andrés ^b   Valdés, Berenice ^c   Cullen, Doug ^a   Houghton, George ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; N400; Semantic priming; Task effect

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; ELECTRODE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTICS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTRODES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HUMANS; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SEMANTICS;

EID: 34147093052     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.01.124     Document Type: Article

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