Electrophysiological chronometry of semantic context effects in language production

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1567-1586

  Aristei, Sabrina ^a   Melinger, Alissa ^b   Abdel Rahman, Rasha ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; NEUROSCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH;

EID: 79251502888     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21474     Document Type: Article

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