RP and N400 ERP components reflect semantic violations in visual processing of human actions

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 459, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 142-146

  Proverbio, Alice Mado ^a   Riva, Federica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Action; Apraxia; ERP; Language; Mirror neurons

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; STUDENT; VISION; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66049084718     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.05.012     Document Type: Article

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