Electrophysiological correlates of brand names

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 485, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 178-182

  Cheung, Mei Chun ^a   Chan, Agnes S ^b   Sze, Sophia L ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Brand names; Coherence; EEG; Language processing; Proper nouns

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FRONTAL CORTEX; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NOMENCLATURE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; TEMPORAL CORTEX; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 77957868676     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.09.006     Document Type: Article

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