Effects of attention on what is known and what is not: MEG evidence for functionally discrete memory circuits

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue JUN, 2009, Pages

  Garagnani, Max ^a   Shtyrov, Yury ^a   Pulvermüller, Friedemann ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ERF); Event related potentials fields (ERP; Language; Magnetic mismatch negativity (MMN; Memory trace; MMNm); Neural networks; Words pseudowords

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953788244     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.09.010.2009     Document Type: Article

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