What can Event-related Potentials tell us about language, and perhaps even thought, in schizophrenia?

International Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 66-76

  Kuperberg, Gina R ^a,b   Kreher, Donna A ^a   Ditman, Tali ^a,b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Delusions; ERP; Language; N400; P600; Schizophrenia; Semantic; Thought disorder

Indexed keywords

BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MEMORY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEMANTICS; WORD RECOGNITION; WORKING MEMORY;

BRAIN; COGNITION DISORDERS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; THINKING;

EID: 76749156104     PISSN: 01678760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2009.09.005     Document Type: Review

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