An event-related brain potential study of schizotypal personality and associative semantic processing

International Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 119-126

  Kiang, Michael ^a   Prugh, Jocelyn ^b   Kutas, Marta ^b,c  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Language; N400; Schizotypal personality; Semantic priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; SCORING SYSTEM; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONCEPT FORMATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REACTION TIME; SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 76749134019     PISSN: 01678760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2009.10.005     Document Type: Article

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