Sensorimotor semantics on the spot: Brain activity dissociates between conceptual categories within 150 ms

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Moseley, Rachel L ^a   Pulvermuller, Friedemann ^b   Shtyrov, Yury ^a  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SEMANTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONCEPT FORMATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONCEPT FORMATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84886016111     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01928     Document Type: Article

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