Subliminal semantic priming changes the dynamic causal influence between the left frontal and temporal cortex

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 165-174

  Matsumoto, Atsushi ^a   Kakigi, Ryusuke ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN REGION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LOW RESOLUTION BRAIN ELECTROMAGNETIC TOMOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBLIMINAL SEMANTIC PRIMING; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84888342748     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00472     Document Type: Article

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