Test-retest reliability and stability of N400 effects in a word-pair semantic priming paradigm

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 667-674

  Kiang, Michael ^a   Patriciu, Iulia ^a   Roy, Carolyn ^a   Christensen, Bruce K ^a   Zipursky, Robert B ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electroencephalography; Event related potentials; Neurophysiology; Reproducibility of results; Semantics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MOTIVATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875080853     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2012.09.029     Document Type: Article

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