The Anterior Midline Field: Coercion or decision making?

Brain and Language

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 184-190

  Pylkkänen, Liina ^a   Martin, Andrea E ^a   McElree, Brian ^a   Smart, Andrew ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior midline field; Coercion; Decision making; MEG; Semantic processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BRAIN; COMPREHENSION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 59649097615     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2008.06.006     Document Type: Article

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