What the online manipulation of linguistic activity can tell us about language and thought

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue SEP, 2013, Pages

  Perry, Lynn K ^a   Lupyan, Gary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Labeling; Language and thought; Linguistic relativity; Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS); Verbal interference

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL INTERFERENCE; WERNICKE AREA;

EID: 84884638378     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00122     Document Type: Article

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