Syntactic unification operations are reflected in oscillatory dynamics during on-line sentence comprehension

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1333-1347

  Bastiaansen, Marcel ^a,b   Magyari, Lilla ^a   Hagoort, Peter ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; COMPREHENSION; DYNAMICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; WORKING MEMORY;

BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN; COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NEURONS; READING; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 77953784680     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21283     Document Type: Article

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