N400 ERPs for actions: Building meaning in context

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue FEB, 2013, Pages

  Amoruso, Lucia ^a   Gelormini, Carlos ^a,b   Aboitiz, Francisco ^a,b   Alvarez González, Miguel ^e   Manes, Facundo ^d   Cardona, Juan ^a,b   Ibanez, Agustin ^a,b,c  

^a FAVALORO UNIVERSITY   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DIEGO PORTALES   (Chile)

^d INSTITUTO DE NEUROLOGÍA Y NEUROCIRUGÍA   (Cuba)

^e PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Action comprehension; Action meaning; Contextual integration; Fronto temporo parietal network; Language; N400

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GESTURE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84933670624     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00057     Document Type: Review

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