Selective alignment of brain responses by task demands during semantic processing

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 655-665

  Baggio, Giosuè ^a,b  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Language processing; N400; Semantics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL N400; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; READING; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84858438586     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.01.002     Document Type: Article

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