Enhancing lexical ambiguity resolution by brain polarization of the right posterior superior temporal sulcus

Cortex

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1056-1062

  Peretz, Yael ^a   Lavidor, Michal ^a,b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hemispheres; Language lateralization; Lexical ambiguity; Semantic processing; TDCS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; POLARIZATION; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTICS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; WERNICKE AREA;

EID: 84875806722     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2012.03.015     Document Type: Article

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