Brain responses to world knowledge violations: A comparison of stimulus- and fixation-triggered event-related potentials and neural oscillations

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1017-1028

  Metzner, Paul ^a   von der Malsburg, Titus ^b   Vasishth, Shravan ^a   Rösler, Frank ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPREHENSION; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPID SERIAL VISUAL PRESENTATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE; LINGUISTICS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84926210848     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00731     Document Type: Article

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