Hemispheric asymmetries in semantic processing: Evidence from false memories for ambiguous words

Brain and Language

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 220-228

  Faust, Miriam ^a   Ben Artzi, Elisheva ^a,b   Harel, Itay ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b KINNERET COLLEGE ON THE SEA OF GALILEE   (Israel)

Author keywords

False memory; Hemispheres; Lexical ambiguity; Semantic processing; Visual fields

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALSE MEMORY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEMANTICS; THEORY; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL FIELD; WORD LIST RECALL; WORD RECOGNITION;

BRAIN; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MEMORY; REPRESSION; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 43049163838     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2007.12.002     Document Type: Article

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