Concreteness in emotional words: ERP evidence from a hemifield study

Brain Research

Volumn 1148, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 138-148

  Kanske, Philipp ^a   Kotz, Sonja A ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Concreteness; Emotion; ERP; LPC; N400; P200; Word processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FIELD STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; MALE; MENTAL TASK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; READING; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 34247132692     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.02.044     Document Type: Article

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