ERP correlates of superordinate category activation

International Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 134-144

  Schumacher, Rahel ^a   Wirth, Miranka ^b   Perrig, Walter J ^a   Strik, Werner ^b   Koenig, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Abstraction; ERP; LORETA; N400; Semantic association; Superordinate category

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOPOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 64849087196     PISSN: 01678760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2008.11.006     Document Type: Article

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