Towards dynamical system models of language-related brain potentials

Cognitive Neurodynamics

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 229-255

  Beim Graben, Peter ^a   Gerth, Sabrina ^b   Vasishth, Shravan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computational psycholinguistics; Dynamical systems; Event related brain potentials; Language processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DYNAMICS; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE FUNCTION; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; SPACE; SYSTEMS THEORY;

EID: 49249139448     PISSN: 18714080     EISSN: 18714099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11571-008-9041-5     Document Type: Article

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