N400-like potentials and reaction times index semantic relations between highly repeated individual words

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 905-922

  Renoult, Louis ^a   Debruille, J Bruno ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; N400 EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SCALP; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; TIME FACTORS; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650772609     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21410     Document Type: Article

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