The relationship of language and emotion: N400 support for an embodied view of language comprehension

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2400-2414

  Chwilla, Dorothee J ^a   Virgillito, Daniele ^b   Vissers, Constance Th W M ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SADNESS; SEMANTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; REACTION TIME; READING; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; SYMBOLISM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960139306     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21578     Document Type: Article

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