The effects of context, meaning frequency, and associative strength on semantic selection: Distinct contributions from each cerebral hemisphere

Brain Research

Volumn 1183, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 91-108

  Meyer, Aaron M ^a   Federmeier, Kara D ^a  

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

Author keywords

Cerebral hemisphere; Context effect; ERP; Lexical ambiguity; LPC; N400

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS; VISUAL FIELD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 36048940771     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.09.007     Document Type: Article

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