Early MEG activation dynamics in the left temporal and inferior frontal cortex reflect semantic context integration

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1633-1642

  Shtyrov, Yury ^a   Pulvermüller, Friedemann ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED RESPONSE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL METHOD; SPEECH; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 35148859719     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2007.19.10.1633     Document Type: Article

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