Ultra-rapid access to words in the brain

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  MacGregor, Lucy J ^a   Pulvermüller, Friedemann ^a   Van Casteren, Maarten ^a   Shtyrov, Yury ^a  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WORD RECOGNITION; ADOLESCENT; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MENTAL FUNCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN WAVES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; REACTION TIME; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857758791     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1715     Document Type: Article

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