The neural manifestation of the word concreteness effect: An electrical neuroimaging study

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 880-891

  Adorni, Roberta ^a   Proverbio, Alice Mado ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Abstract nouns; Concreteness; ERPs; Lexical access; LORETA; Word

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACT WORD; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONCRETRE WORD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MESIAL OCCIPITAL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PSEUDOWORD; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; STRIATE CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

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

EID: 84858450853     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.01.028     Document Type: Article

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