Before the N400: Effects of lexical-semantic violations in visual cortex

Brain and Language

Volumn 118, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 23-28

  Dikker, Suzanne ^a,b   Pylkkanen, Liina ^b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Language processing; Lexical priming; Lexical semantic processing; M100; Magnetoencephalography; N400; Prediction; Top down processing; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEXICAL SEMANTIC VIOLATION; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; COMPREHENSION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; SEMANTICS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 79957842540     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2011.02.006     Document Type: Article

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