Watching the brain during meaning acquisition

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1858-1866

  Mestres Missé, Anna ^a   Rodriguez Fornells, Antoni ^a,b   Münte, Thomas F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^c OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Language learning; Meaning acquisition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 34547678036     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhl094     Document Type: Article

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