Event-related potential correlates of negation in a sentence-picture verification paradigm

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1355-1370

  Lüdtke, Jana ^a   Friedrich, Claudia K ^b,c   De Filippis, Mónica ^a   Kaup, Barbara ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; READING; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 48749103825     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2008.20093     Document Type: Article

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