Reversing the N400: Event-related potentials of a negative semantic priming effect

NeuroReport

Volumn 19, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 1479-1482

  Bermeitinger, Christina ^a   Frings, Christian ^a   Wentura, Dirk ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Category priming; Category representation; Center surround inhibition; Event related potentials; Lexical decision task; N400; Negative semantic priming effect; Semantic priming; Semantic processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MASKING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEMANTICS; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; CUES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 53549118587     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e32830f4b0b     Document Type: Article

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