Shedding light on words and sentences: Near-infrared spectroscopy in language research

Brain and Language

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 152-163

  Rossi, Sonja ^a,c   Telkemeyer, Silke ^c,d,e   Wartenburger, Isabell ^c,d,e   Obrig, Hellmuth ^a,b,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b Day Care Clinic of Cognitive Neurology   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^e FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electroencephalography (EEG); Language; Language acquisition; Lateralization; Near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS); Optical imaging (OI); Sentence processing; Word processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY LANGUAGE PROCESSING; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BRAIN CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; INFANCY; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RESEARCH;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84859766693     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2011.03.008     Document Type: Article

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