The early context effect reflects activity in the temporo-prefrontal semantic system: Evidence from electrical neuroimaging of abstract and concrete word reading

NeuroImage

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 423-436

  Wirth, Miranka ^a   Horn, Helge ^a   Koenig, Thomas ^a   Razafimandimby, Annick ^c   Stein, Maria ^a   Mueller, Thomas ^a   Federspiel, Andrea ^a   Meier, Beat ^b   Dierks, Thomas ^a   Strik, Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

Author keywords

Concreteness; Inferior frontal gyrus; Language; N400; Semantic memory; Semantic priming; Temporal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VERBAL MEMORY; WAVEFORM; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; READING; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 45949083471     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.03.045     Document Type: Article

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