Brain oscillations during semantic evaluation of speech

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 259-266

  Shahin, Antoine J ^a   Picton, Terence W ^b   Miller, Lee M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alpha activity; Beta activity; EEG; Gamma band activity; Semantic; Speech; Theta activity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MEMORY; BETA RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; THETA RHYTHM;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ATTENTION; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 67349277474     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2009.02.008     Document Type: Article

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