Brain oscillations during spoken sentence processing

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1149-1164

  Peña, Marcela ^a,b   Melloni, Lucia ^b,c  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; ITALY; JAPANESE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPAIN; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN WAVES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859149417     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00144     Document Type: Article

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