What's behind a P600? Integration Operations during Irony Processing

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Spotorno, Nicola ^a   Cheylus, Anne ^a   Van Der Henst, Jean Baptiste ^a   Noveck, Ira A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b W F Albright Institute of Archaeological Research Associate Researcher   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH RECORDING; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MENTAL TASK; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; BRAIN; COMPREHENSION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; THEORY OF MIND; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879479640     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066839     Document Type: Article

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