Imagine that! ERPs provide evidence for distinct hemispheric contributions to the processing of concrete and abstract concepts

NeuroImage

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1116-1123

  Huang, Hsu Wen ^a   Lee, Chia Lin ^b   Federmeier, Kara D ^b  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS; THINKING; VISUAL FIELD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGINATION; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349974223     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.07.031     Document Type: Article

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