Danger and usefulness are detected early in auditory lexical processing: Evidence from electroencephalography

Brain and Language

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 81-91

  Kryuchkova, Tatiana ^a   Tucker, Benjamin V ^a   Wurm, Lee H ^b   Baayen, R Harald ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory comprehension; Danger; Frequency; Theta oscillations; Uniqueness point; Usefulness

Indexed keywords

ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMOTION; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; HAZARD; HUMAN; MALE; OSCILLATION; PHONETICS; PREDICTION; THETA RHYTHM; VISUAL STIMULATION; WAVEFORM; WORD RECOGNITION;

ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; READING; SEMANTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84864297870     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2012.05.005     Document Type: Article

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