Brain oscillations and functional connectivity during overt language production

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue JUN, 2012, Pages

  Ewald, Arne ^a,b   Aristei, Sabrina ^c   Nolte, Guido ^d   Abdel Rahman, Rasha ^c  

^a NIRx Medizintechnik GmbH   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain oscillations; Functional connectivity; overt language production; Semantic interference

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867125377     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00166     Document Type: Article

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