Interplay of emotional valence and concreteness in word processing: An event-related potential study with verbs

Brain and Language

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 264-271

  Palazova, Marina ^a   Sommer, Werner ^a   Schacht, Annekathrin ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Concreteness; Early posterior negativity; Emotional words; Event related potentials

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNIVERSITY STUDENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875947227     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2013.02.008     Document Type: Article

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