Gamma EEG activity induced by semantic violation during sentence reading

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 465, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 74-78

  Penolazzi, Barbara ^a,b   Angrilli, Alessandro ^b   Job, Remo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

EEG; Gamma; Reading; Semantic; Sentence processing; Spectral analysis; Theta

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; GAMMA RHYTHM; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ITALY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTICS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; READING; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349116872     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.08.065     Document Type: Article

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