A cortical network for semantics: (De)constructing the N400

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 920-933

  Lau, Ellen F ^a   Phillips, Colin ^a   Poeppel, David ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN CELL; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SEMANTICS;

EID: 56549091312     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn2532     Document Type: Review

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