A lexical basis for N400 context effects: Evidence from MEG

Brain and Language

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 161-172

  Lau, Ellen ^a   Almeida, Diogo ^a   Hines, Paul C ^a   Poeppel, David ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

MEG; N400; Prediction; Semantic anomaly; Semantic priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PREDICTION; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 70449517418     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2009.08.007     Document Type: Article

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