Left parietal alpha enhancement during working memory-intensive sentence processing

Cortex

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 711-721

  Meyer, Lars ^a   Obleser, Jonas ^a   Friederici, Angela D ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alpha oscillations; Argument verb dependency; Sentence processing; Source localization; Verbal working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUAL GYRUS; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; OSCILLATION; PARIETAL CORTEX; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84875269415     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2012.03.006     Document Type: Article

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