Fast oscillatory dynamics during language comprehension: Unification versus maintenance and prediction?

Brain and Language

Volumn 148, Issue , 2015, Pages 51-63

  Lewis, Ashley Glen ^a,b   Wang, Lin ^c   Bastiaansen, Marcel ^a,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^d NHTV BREDA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Beta; EEG; Gamma; Language comprehension; MEG; Oscillatory dynamics; Prediction; Unification

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MOTOR CORTEX; OSCILLATORY POTENTIAL; PREDICTION; SEMANTICS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; PHYSIOLOGY; READING; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

BRAIN; COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; READING; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84940462105     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2015.01.003     Document Type: Article

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