Interactions between language and attention systems: Early automatic lexical processing?

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1465-1478

  Shtyrov, Yury ^a   Kujala, Teija ^b   Pulvermüller, Friedemann ^a  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUTOMATION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 77953763280     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21292     Document Type: Article

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