Summing it up: Semantic activation processes in the two hemispheres as revealed by event-related potentials

Brain Research

Volumn 1233, Issue , 2008, Pages 146-159

  Kandhadai, Padmapriya ^a   Federmeier, Kara D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral hemispheres; Event related potentials (ERPs); Lexical ambiguity; N400; Semantic priming; Summation priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL SUMMATION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; CEREBRUM; COMPREHENSION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 51449102752     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.07.043     Document Type: Article

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