How long-term memory and accentuation interact during spoken language comprehension

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 967-978

  Li, Xiaoqing ^a   Yang, Yufang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Accentuation; N400; Selective attention; Semantic meaning; Spoken language comprehension

Indexed keywords

ACCENTUATION; ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; ASSERTIVE TRAINING; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; SPOKEN LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION; THETA RHYTHM; VERBALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENTION; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875551005     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.12.016     Document Type: Article

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