Cortical Dynamics of Semantic Processing during Sentence Comprehension: Evidence from Event-Related Optical Signals

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Huang, Jian ^a,b   Wang, Suiping ^a   Jia, Shiwei ^b   Mo, Deyuan ^b   Chen, Hsuan Chih ^b  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED OPTICAL SIGNAL IMAGING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; ELECTRODES; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; OPTICAL FIBERS; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880981467     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070671     Document Type: Article

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