Event-related potential characterisation of the Shakespearean functional shift in narrative sentence structure

NeuroImage

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 923-931

  Thierry, Guillaume ^a   Martin, Clara D ^a,b   Gonzalez Diaz, Victorina ^c   Rezaie, Roozbeh ^c   Roberts, Neil ^c   Davis, Philip M ^c  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; NARRATIVE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; LITERATURE; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; SEMANTICS;

EID: 40649111835     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.12.006     Document Type: Article

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