On the functional nature of the N400: Contrasting effects related to visual word recognition and contextual semantic integration

Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-7

  Molinaro, Nicola ^a   Conrad, Markus ^b   Barber, Horacio A ^a   Carreiras, Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cloze probability; ERPs; N400; Neighbor frequency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH RECORDING; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 78650024182     PISSN: 17588928     EISSN: 17588936     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17588920903373952     Document Type: Article

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