The balance between memory and unification in semantics: A dynamic account of the N400

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1338-1367

  Baggio, Giosuè ^a   Hagoort, Peter ^b,c  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

N400; Neuroscience; Semantics

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; AMPA RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPREHENSION; CONVERSATION; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; LANGUAGE; MEMORY; METAPHYSICS; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PARS OPERCULARIS; PARS TRIANGULARIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEMANTICS; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; UNIFICATION;

EID: 84858068687     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690965.2010.542671     Document Type: Article

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