From N400 to N300: Variations in the timing of semantic processing with repetition

NeuroImage

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 206-215

  Renoult, Louis ^a   Wang, Xiaoxiao ^b   Calcagno, Vincent ^c   Prévost, Marie ^b   Debruille, J Bruno ^b  

^a ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Institut Sophia Agrobiotech   (France)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; LPC; N400; Repetition; Semantic memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISODIC MEMORY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXPLICIT MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATE POSITIVE COMPONENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPETITION PRIMING; SEMANTIC MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL PROCESSES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859072164     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.02.069     Document Type: Article

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