Finding the right word: Hemispheric asymmetries in the use of sentence context information

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 45, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 3001-3014

  Wlotko, Edward W ^a   Federmeier, Kara D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Hemispheric differences; Language; N400; Sentence processing; Sentential constraint

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; VISUAL FIELD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 34548482227     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.05.013     Document Type: Article

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