Processing of existing, synonymous, and anomalous German derived adjectives: An MEG study

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 469, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 107-111

  Bölte, Jens ^a   Schulz, Claudia ^a   Dobel, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decomposition; Evoked potentials; Morphological processing; N400m; Semantic processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS;

EID: 72649087706     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.11.054     Document Type: Article

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