Attention to language: Novel MEG paradigm for registering involuntary language processing in the brain

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2605-2616

  Shtyrov, Yury ^a,f   Smith, Marie L ^a,h   Horner, Aidan J ^b,c   Henson, Richard ^a   Nathan, Pradeep J ^d,e   Bullmore, Edward T ^d,e   Pulvermüller, Friedemann ^a,g  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^g FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; EEG; ERP (ERF); Language; MEG; Mismatch negativity (MMN); P3a; Word

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; VERBALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865546028     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.07.012     Document Type: Article

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