Brain dynamics sustaining rapid rule extraction from speech

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3105-3120

  de Diego Balaguer, Ruth ^a,b,c,d,e   Fuentemilla, Lluis ^a,b,c   Rodriguez Fornells, Antoni ^c,f  

^a INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c BELLVITGE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE IDIBELL   (Spain)

^d INSERM U955   (France)

^e ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; THETA RHYTHM;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860390597     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2011.21636     Document Type: Article

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