Semantic relatedness between words in each individual brain: An event-related potential study

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 501, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 72-77

  Hata, Masahiro ^a   Homae, Fumitaka ^a   Hagiwara, Hiroko ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Association; Mental lexicon; N400; Semantic priming; Semantic properties

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOCALIZATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79961128182     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.06.044     Document Type: Article

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