Cognitive control influences the use of meaning relations during spoken sentence comprehension

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2659-2668

  Boudewyn, Megan A ^a   Long, Debra L ^a   Swaab, Tamara Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; Individual differences; Lexical association; N400

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPREHENSION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SEMANTICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUPPRESSION ABILITY; VERBALIZATION; WORD RECOGNITION; WORKING MEMORY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865566060     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.07.019     Document Type: Article

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