Grounding the cognitive neuroscience of semantics in linguistic theory

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1317-1337

  Pylkkänen, Liina ^a   Brennan, Jonathan ^a   Bemis, Douglas K ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AMF; Cognitive neuroscience; Formal semantics; Magnetoencephalography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 84858066128     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690965.2010.527490     Document Type: Article

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