Alive and grasping: Stable and rapid semantic access to an object category but not object graspability

NeuroImage

Volumn 77, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-13

  Amsel, Ben D ^a   Urbach, Thomas P ^b   Kutas, Marta ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

EEG; ERP; Go nogo; Semantic; Visual word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONCEPT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SENSORY CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876712716     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.03.058     Document Type: Article

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