Semantic richness and the activation of concepts in semantic memory: Evidence from event-related potentials

Brain Research

Volumn 1282, Issue , 2009, Pages 95-102

  Kounios, John ^a   Green, Deborah L ^a   Payne, Lisa ^a   Fleck, Jessica I ^b   Grondin, Ray ^c   McRae, Ken ^c  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b RICHARD STOCKTON COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Concreteness; Event related potential; N400; Semantic memory; Semantic richness

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED RESPONSE; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; MEMORY; MENTAL PROCESSES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67649658020     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.05.092     Document Type: Article

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