Mass and Count nouns activate different brain regions: An ERP study on early components

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 430, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 48-53

  Mondini, Sara ^a,b   Angrilli, Alessandro ^a,c   Bisiacchi, Patrizia ^a   Spironelli, Chiara ^a   Marinelli, Katia ^a   Semenza, Carlo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Casa di Cura Figlie di San Camillo   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Evoked potentials; Lateralization; Lexical task; N150; Recognition potential

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VOCABULARY;

EID: 37549038587     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.10.020     Document Type: Article

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