Localization of electrophysiological responses to semantic and syntactic anomalies in language comprehension with MEG

NeuroImage

Volumn 105, Issue , 2015, Pages 507-524

  Kielar, Aneta ^a,b   Panamsky, Lilia ^a,b   Links, Kira A ^a,b   Meltzer, Jed A ^a,b  

^a ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

ERF; MEG; N400m; SAM beamforming; Semantic; Sentence comprehension; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PHONETICS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SOUND DETECTION; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL LOBE; WORKING MEMORY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN WAVES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84914812074     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.11.016     Document Type: Article

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